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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_hi_te/free_music_downloads

A company comes up with a genius idea - people get free music and the music industry who provides the music gets a cut of the vast advertising pie. But oh no, music execs (who still think its '98) oppose anything but being paid arms and legs for the music they are licensing artists to make for them. Apparently, CEOs of these companies are ignoring whoever is in charge of their advertising or needs to fire everyone and hire new blood who can inform them the internet is real and ads support sites that probably cost assloads of cash to run because of bandwidth.

The only logical explanation I can come up for their opposition to this is that the music industry supports pirating. The more "intellectual property" people pirate, the more the industry can throw a tantrum and point to manipulated facts then get shit to go their way.

I read the other day that the Music industry, well rather the RIAA was uploading fake shit onto torrents, to try and catch people illegally downloading them. How about that?

You only heard about this now?

I read the other day that the Music industry, well rather the RIAA was uploading fake shit onto torrents, to try and catch people illegally downloading them. How about that?

Welcome back to the internet. Here's a free complimentary copy of "All The Shit the RIAA Has Done that We Already Know About that You Need to Know!"

Look, I am no fan of the greedy monolith that is the music industry, but I wont sympathize with people who claim they are some sort of social pioneer because they're too greedy (yes, greedy) themselves to pay for their music.

The music industry could have found a better way of defeating piracy, but, instead they have reverted to bullying tactics which work only on those who haven't actually pirated music; all the grannies, computerless families and corpses in America!

Look, I am no fan of the greedy monolith that is the music industry, but I wont sympathize with people who claim they are some sort of social pioneer because they're too greedy (yes, greedy) themselves to pay for their music.

This is about the two big major labels turning down advertising supported music sharing - advertising whose money would go to the labels. You can either read what my sig says or what will.i.am says to get the gist of this maneuver.

You only heard about this now?

Hey, get off my back. I just saw it on a newspaper. I didn't really think they were doing anything like that...(then again, I am absent minded most of the time, anymore)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_hi_te/free_music_downloads

A company comes up with a genius idea - people get free music and the music industry who provides the music gets a cut of the vast advertising pie. But oh no, music execs (who still think its '98) oppose anything but being paid arms and legs for the music they are licensing artists to make for them. Apparently, CEOs of these companies are ignoring whoever is in charge of their advertising or needs to fire everyone and hire new blood who can inform them the internet is real and ads support sites that probably cost assloads of cash to run because of bandwidth.

The only logical explanation I can come up for their opposition to this is that the music industry supports pirating. The more "intellectual property" people pirate, the more the industry can throw a tantrum and point to manipulated facts then get shit to go their way.

Look, I am no fan of the greedy monolith that is the music industry, but I wont sympathize with people who claim they are some sort of social pioneer because they're too greedy (yes, greedy) themselves to pay for their music.

Hey, get off my back. I just saw it on a newspaper. I didn't really think they were doing anything like that...(then again, I am absent minded most of the time, anymore)

They've been doing that kind of stuff for years.

Welcome back to the internet. Here's a free complimentary copy of "All The Shit the RIAA Has Done that We Already Know About that You Need to Know!"

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/NuGo1988/Communism.jpg

Damn those commies and their piratology.