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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
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
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Are you suggesting that artists would stop making music if sheet music printers did not adequately compensate them? I see downloading in the same category... ultimately of no meaningful impact on the majority of artists, whether or not the MAFIAA eventually decides to buy legislation to compensate them for it. (And, by the way, some countries already tax storage media, from video tapes to CDs, DVDs, and MP3 players [not sure about hard drives] in order to compensate media conglomerates for the possibility of lost sales.)
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