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Originally Posted by Martian
The defendant, looking at paying $1m or more if they lose the case, usually takes the settlement. ... They've been relying on the fact that a $1.5-$2 million lawsuit is enough to cow most average citizens into taking the settlement of several thousand and thus avoiding the case ever going to trial.
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Always sounded like extortion to me.
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Labels either directly or through their pitbull of the RIAA are alienating consumers on one side of the equation and artists on the other; this is their way of dealing with the fact that they're pretty much redundant in today's music industry. Artists are able to produce independently and provide the results directly to consumers, meaning that the Big Four have become pretty much unnecessary.
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So they are banging two groups up the ass and only pretending to give one the benefit of the reach around?
That is bad juju.
As for them becoming useless, yes. I have seen them becoming so for a long time. Until artists start releasing their music in lossless formats, I will still want the physical CD from the artists, though.
Hehe.