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As I said before, all the music I buy recently is direct from the artist. They put up their own money to make the recordings and produce the CDs. I support them directly.
There was (may still be) a surcharge on DAT recorders and media to compensate the publishers (and perhaps the artists) for music recorded on DAT. At one time there was a plan to add a surcharge to blank "music" CDs that people would copy their CDs to at home. Not sure what happened to that but if it passed it must be very small given the prices of CDs these days.
As I have said before (and I know that I am repeating myself) the problem with the music companies is that they are producing stuff that fewer and fewer people want to hear.
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