Right! and the way to do it is to promote creative commons artists. (http://creativecommons.org). Let's face it, why do we need to listen to RIAA artists anyway, when there are hundreds of thousands of other artists just as good (if not better) that would jump at the chance to promote their music through sharing, so that you might go listen to them live in concert. Artists should get paid for the work they do (i.e. performing at a concert) the same as the rest of us do (i.e. for going to work), not be paid forever for a song that they wrote once a long time ago.
ok, fair enough, but tell my why should I pay for Jimmy Hendrix music when the guy is long since dead, or contribute toward Beatles royalties when 2 out of the 4 guys in the band are dead, and all the royalties don't even go to Apple Records anymore anyway.
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Right! and the way to do it is to promote creative commons artists. (http://creativecommons.org). Let's face it, why do we need to listen to RIAA artists anyway, when there are hundreds of thousands of other artists just as good (if not better) that would jump at the chance to promote their music through sharing, so that you might go listen to them live in concert. Artists should get paid for the work they do (i.e. performing at a concert) the same as the rest of us do (i.e. for going to work), not be paid forever for a song that they wrote once a long time ago.
ok, fair enough, but tell my why should I pay for Jimmy Hendrix music when the guy is long since dead, or contribute toward Beatles royalties when 2 out of the 4 guys in the band are dead, and all the royalties don't even go to Apple Records anymore anyway.