Since the music buying public started to realize that they were being swindled. Most of the money charged for a CD doesn't go to the artist that created it. It goes to the fat, bloated and lazy record companies that extort that money from their fans. It's the record companies and the corporations that own them that are comparing their loss in profits to genocide.

I love music, I hate the politics. I hate what the music industry has morphed into. Just when I thought that Milli-Vanilli was as low as the industry could sink, we get Britney and Jessica and groups like Metallica that actually admitted copying music as they were suing their fans for doing the same damn thing.

There are two choices going forward, as I see it. We either start executing people that copy music or the record industry and the RIAA must die. Given that the later is totally unable and unwilling to change and still clings to the idea that suing their customers is the best route to untold profits, I guess the government should stock up on guns and ammo for the firing squads...

I have some comments about Mr Schwabach's essay. You can find them here: http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2007/11/schwabachs-essay-debunks-perception-ip.html

Cheers,
IP Dragon
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