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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Because we're (or at least I and my friends are) becoming increasingly aware of the fact that authors (although more poignantly musicians) receive almost nothing of the money we spend on the works. While book authors usually at least keep the copyright over their own works, most musicians do not, and especially when those record companies are lobbying for things like "life+70", and then saying "but think of that unkown guitar player in the beatles back in the '60s who would otherwise not get any money", this tends to make people sceptical about whether authors/musicians stand to gain anything at all from those increases
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So how, exactly, does free file-sharing of their music benefit them? It would appear to me as though your adding insult to injury, further depriving them of any profits they may recieve, however small.