OFKU0

I'm a working musician and have worked on various recordings where royalty payments were contractual between me and the source of ownership, be it the musician's, record labels or publishing companies. Independant or freelance musician's like me, who are lucky enough to get points from recordings, see less and less money.

I'm not going to get into a pissing match with anyone who defends free? music or whatever source of downloadable property they like. The rhetoric regarding record companies is funny (evil, money hungry) just because most people who rely on such nonsense haven't got the fucking slightest clue how record companies work. Want to piss up a tree? Try publishing companies. That's a good place to start.

Personally I think why should the recording industry and it's artists suffer. Maybe everything should be free. Let's start with gaming and steal all that software. That's pretty popular. How many people can we make loss their jobs in that industry.

Or how about automobiles. Maybe Saturn can replicate the Ford Mustand and sell the car for 50% less. I'm sure Ford wouldn't mind. Oh,.. your brother, uncle, father works at Ford and is getting laid off because of Saturn. Too fucking bad. Who the fuck cares.

Like comic books? Well then lets take the whole book and reproduce it and give it away. Copyrights don't mean anything. And for the people who work there. Fuck em. I want it for free and if someone can get it to me for free, fuck everybody else. I'm sure Hugh Hefner and Playboy wouldn't mind either.

Tongue in cheek I suppose. Just remember, some of you might be in a position one day where your livelihood is shrinking just because someone feels that what you produce should be free. It all comes around sooner or later.

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