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Originally Posted by kacir
You are going to like this one
Cory Doctorow gave nice speech a few years ago, but I can't find it now.
He talked about sheet music publishers that were attacking record companies as pirates. A few years later record publishers accused radio producers that they were pirates ... |
It should be noted that in each of the cases you list, ultimately, a system was developed to compensate the original artists for the work that was used. If you record a piece of music under copyright, you better be willing to pay the author of it. If you play a band's music... etc.
Ultimately, the question here is, how are artists getting compensated by those who are downloading copies of their work for free?
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Bill