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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
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