Re: [NTLK] [OT] Royalties

From: Woo Lee (vitcitylb_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 14:02:01 PDT


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>The people on Slashdot (an interesting place, to say the least) are

Slashdot, awesome site. Just reading the witty subject lines in the daily
emails makes my day...of course reading them on my Newt. whereever I am is
the best.
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> Some also raise the interesting question of whether the fact that you
>are paying this royalty on 'music' CD-Rs in some way condones audio
>piracy.. I would say no, maybe an

Funny how 'the music industry' in the 70's said the re-recordable cassette
tape would doom the vinyl record and every major record label. So
government and industry always allowed for a 'bump' in cost of retail
prices to 'pay for lossed future revenue'. Then massive file-sharing came
along to up the ante. Leveling the 'playing field', ROCK ON!
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