The cornered beast

"The Supreme Court will soon rule on the legality of file sharing applications in America. The powerful media lobby claims that file sharing applications do not have any legitimate uses and are nothing but a part of a rogue industry that is getting rich on the backs of poor hard working actors and pop stars."

Getting rich off the backs of the poor?? hard working actors and pop stars. Thats debatable, now the music industry on the other hand, yes yes they are. the music industry gets rich off the backs of these people and the bands have to tour to make money. Oh wait thats if their contracts allow them to, after all Fiona Apple has had a new album out for years now and been unable to make a cent off of it. Why?? not because it's bad music(if that were the case 99.9% of all artist would be beggars, quite to the contrary its supposed to be amazing), and not because people won't pay for her album. The reason shes been denied a new sources of income is because the short sighted bigbosses of the music industry like keeping their heads up each others asses, and would rather push their CRAP down our throat instead of releasing her album. Because of this she can not tour or make money from her music.Now to those of you saying that they don't HAVE to tour, no your right they could just get by off of the 5-10% royalties they get. OH wait thats if they get paid.

Bah and as to the legality of p2p, common with that excuse you could say the same of IRC, never the less it still used legitimately. Wait tho as one of the best ways for independent artists to spread their music, just think what sort of threat banning p2ps would eliminate for the music industry. really common now privately owned guns are commonly used to rob banks and kill innocent people so lets ban that too huh?? for the love of god!!!

any ways I am not very coherent to night so I'm gonna end this now before it gets ugly night

-ME

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