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The response to that is "Meanwhile, back in communist Russia."

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What about the artists? Shouldn't the people who create the product get some of the proceeds? I'd support a mandatory percentage of the profits being given to the artists before I'd support some sort of 'windfall profits tax' on the music industry.

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Music people need unions.

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The record company signs the artists, refines their material, and then market the music. What do the artists do? They write the songs, in most cases, record the songs, make a video, and sit back and collect $0.006 per every album sold. They might go on tour where they make some fair bank but otherwise they struggling to make ends meat like the rest of us in the face of super greedy corporations. So ya, if the above quoted sarcasm of mine were ever to come to pass, then sure, a larger chuck of the Record industries profits should go to the people who actually create the music we love.

The point is the greedy bastards at the top have always gotten the money while the poor fools doing the work get the shaft and the stupid saps buying the product pay the bill.

Greed is what its all about. Hell look at the black music artists and how bad the record industry stroked those poor saps. The black music artists of the US should get together and have the NAACP sue the record industry for all the royalties they have stolen over the years from the black musicians of America. I would support such an action because it would be the right thing to do. Then go after them for all the money they ripped off of other artists.

The record industry has made bank ripping off artists and consumers for years. The P2P issue isn't really an issue so much as it’s a movement. People want access to older music that is no longer being sold. They want access to specific songs without having to buy ten songs that they do not want. If I were the Record industry I would embrace P2P and make it work for me. Right now they are treating it as the enemy and not the future cash cow that it could be.

They are in a nutshell blind, ignorant, narrow-minded, short sided, fools.

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ORDER TO THE KGB: Citizan El_Phil is to be arrested for treason!

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In other news AT was awarded a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' medal for his tireless work against capitalism. In true Homo sovieticus fashion he was modest "I just hate the bastards and want to see them all working in the salt mines. This medal is not for me, it's for the people."

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Power to the people baby. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hmmmm

Apple is in fact screwing the artists worse than ever. So if the recording industry is greedy, what does that make Apple?

Hypocritical bar stewards I believe.

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That is a problem with the music labels constantly shafting the artists, not necessarily iTunes... Apply pays the fee to RIAA et all, who then dole it out in small chunks to artists.

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No Apple sets its own rates. Look at the original article, you have the head of Warner Music complaining about Apple. Now you may doubt his motives for complaint, but this is Apple shafting the artists. And the writers as well.

No-body in that industry is particularly nice, but at least the rest aren't that hypocritical. Its breath taking.