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Re: Samples and looping
From: "tim echols" <eekamouse67@yahoo.com>
> yes, the illegal download and filesharing have made it so that the
>actual
> recorded work can hardly pull in the amount of money for the artist that
> it once did.
That's certainly the party line excuse the RIAA and its ilk have been
using
to justify their lack of income: no, not the demise of retail sales, not
the
adherence to the culturally-bankrupt concept of "star making" (whether the
"star" has talent or not), not the absence of new (ie non-derivative)
songwriters, not the predatory nature of their own business practices, no!
It wasn't them, it's those damned pirates! And while they're at it, go
for
the easy targets at home that use a file-sharing program to download 10 or
20 songs.
Ennnh! It remains to be seen just what quantities of business have ever
been actually lost, beyond the vague but threatening-sounding percentage
figures the recording business continues to pull out of their collective
backsides.
Stephen Goodman
*
http://www.vimeo.com/spgoodman
http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Goodman