Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com

[Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>]

Why would you call Itunes a rapist? I don't remember an artist being 
treated unfairly by it. 
Free mp3 sites? Maybe! But Itunes? No!
Tyler Z
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:32:52 -0800, Rick Walker wrote:


>On 1/29/2013 9:39 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-industrys-model-for-royalties.html?ref=us
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>>*This is one of the most depressing articles I've read in a long time.**
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>>**Does anyone remember when Colonel Tom Parker was revealed to have 
>>cut a deal with Elvis Presley **
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>*so that he would receive a usurious 50% of ALL money that Elvis made?**
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>**It was unprecedented and the rest of the music business, artists and 
>the public recoiled heavily from the news (though cynics always pointed **
>**out that 50% of $40 million dollars was still vastly better than 0% of 
>nothing).**
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>**Well folks,   iTunes,  one of the greatest rapists of musical 
>artistry, in the world charges 50% of ALL DOWNLOAD SALES.**
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>**And they are the good guys compared to Pandora and Spotify, whose 
>statistics make iTunes look like positive artistic **
>**philanthropists.**
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>A new paradigm of selling digital content online needs to assert 
>itself.   One that is fair to artists and all the energy
>and time and money they spend trying to create art for people.
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>There are rumors of this coming.    I can't wait.
>
>Rick Walker
>Fuck iTunes!    Fuck Spotify!     Fuck Pandora!
>Fuck the dominant paradigm that says that downloading other people's 
>music is okay as long as you get away with it.
>Theft if Theft, Folks!
>*