I agree. I think the original reason for the lawsuits was that the recording industry had no interest in disrupting the status quo to innovate in the face of the Internet, but they also couldn't sit idly by while people "stole" their product.
I have to also imagine that the decision was made inside the vacuum of self-righteousness that must exist in the recording label boardrooms.
Well, there aren't a whole lot of alternatives if you want to make a living creating and performing music. To some extent the artists are at fault, but to a greater extent the recording industry has had all of the relevant laws written to favor them over the artists. Unlike almost every other art industry, musicians and songwriters don't even OWN the copyright to their works in the vast majority of cases.
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I agree. I think the original reason for the lawsuits was that the recording industry had no interest in disrupting the status quo to innovate in the face of the Internet, but they also couldn't sit idly by while people "stole" their product.
I have to also imagine that the decision was made inside the vacuum of self-righteousness that must exist in the recording label boardrooms.
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Well, there aren't a whole lot of alternatives if you want to make a living creating and performing music. To some extent the artists are at fault, but to a greater extent the recording industry has had all of the relevant laws written to favor them over the artists. Unlike almost every other art industry, musicians and songwriters don't even OWN the copyright to their works in the vast majority of cases.