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RIAA Subpoenas and the Final Failure of the DMCA | 5 comments (5 topical) | Post A Comment
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by Anonymous User on Fri Aug 22, 2003 at 07:25:06 AM PDT

What does the RIAA really think they are going to accomplish by suing literally millions of file sharers? Do they think we all will really pony up $15-$20 for every CD we want to hear? And will singer/songwriters ever really get their royalties? Many artists wind up broke because of the way the record companies design the contract. (See http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties6.htm for a great example.) Furthermore, it has been well documented how record companies have, in the past, not paid ANY royalties to the artist (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1765522.stm for info on how Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong and others were bilked out of millions of royalty dollars). So, who really is getting the lion's share of the $15.99 CD? Certainly not the artists, whose copywrite infringment the RIAA is so adamantly allegedly protecting!!!

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