Music Industry Is A Bunch Of Greedy, Shortsighted Idiots
from the oh-what-a-surprise dept
This shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone. The music industry, which battled so hard against Napster and MP3.com and others to save the rights of those hardworking musicians and artists to make money off of their music is now trying to screw over those musicians by not paying them for the music they stream from their own websites. It's funny because they're using the exact same arguments that MP3.com and Napster were using against them. There are some good quotes in the article, including the one used for the title of this post...
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