Also scheduled this week; on-line protests over the fact that web broadcasts of streaming music will probably end on July 15th. But, I have a feeling that somehow, common sense will prevail in the end. The whole subject of intellectual property and copyrights needs to be re-examined by lawmakers without the influence of baskets of money from the recording industry. Can that happen? I hope so…
The recording industry is quite young, less than a hundred years old, but it’s a huge moneymaker and those in charge of it are greedy. Just ask the recording artists. And do we, as a society, want to continue to be ripped off by these people? (They aren’t musicians. They are accountants.) So far we have…being quite content to pay $15 - $20 for a CD that cost pennies to create.
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