Killing off the little guy (this time it's internet radio)

[NeBlis]

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I think you are missing the point--this is not the Artist Industry of America, but the Recording Industry of America--the money that the recording companies is trying to squeeze from consumers is going to them, not the artists.

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Agree 100% that allot of recording artists get a raw deal. But they entered into a contract to license their ideas and i support both the right to enter that contract and the rights of the contract itself.

My contention that ideas can be as scarce as milk, or cars was merely to help make a larger point. That this is an example of a distortion on the behalf of the state of what would otherwise be a normal contract situation.

IP is a valid concept, but the state manipulation of that concept to suit its greedy power brokering in this case is deplorable.