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Old December 10th, 2005, 06:05 PM

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Default Re: OT: Die music fans, die!

Incredibly, this was also the position of the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) when radio became a viable commercial medium. They tried to prevent anyone using the new technology because you could listen to their music without paying the money up front like you had to with sheet music. Horrors! Funny how the new system they worked out with broadcast fees has made so many 'artists' into muli-mega-millionares over the last several decades since the creation of radio. And this despite the corporations still skimming most of the cash for themselves. Yep, that evil new technology called 'radio' is gonna ruin the music industry. But not the thieving corporations, of course...

In practice, ASCAP is simply an earlier version of the RIAA, being much more concerned for itself than for the artists it supposedly 'protects'... so this latest stupid lawyer trick from the RIAA companies is not a new phenomenon.

http://www.woodpecker.com/writing/es...-politics.html
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