The whole IP/copyright system is flawed.
The whole RIAA argument that the industry lost Billions of dollars in sales, is just a ploy so they can convince politicians, that the gov is losing 100's of millions of dollars in taxes.
The RIAA uses it's political power and the "copyright" laws to profit off the backs of the artists, and maintain its monopoly over the customer base. All the RIAA is doing is using every possible form of legal manipulation to maintain is "Middle Man" status.
Does the RIAA think music will stop when they don't own the rights and 95%/ 5% royalty rights to some artists first 10 "Albums"?? If there was never another album produced again, and artists had to produce thier own CD's and Digital copys of music, and profited 100% from the sales, I'm willing to bet alot more, higher quality music will be produced, with the real talent profiting.
The RIAA and other usless relic monopolies are dieing , and person to person, community to community transfer of information and "IP" is the next step for us. "Bit torrent" and other forms of communication are just distrobution tools, no different then CD's, records, books or SCROLLS. Anyone who would condone "limiting" any from of distrubution should be the same people burning books...
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