[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[drew Roberts]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 14:12:31 James Morris wrote:
> On 29 June 2010 18:58, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 13:20:41 Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM, andy baxter
> >> <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> >> <SNIP>
> >>
> >> > I think the same thing sometimes. The copyrighted music I download is
> >> > all stuff that's been around for some time, and I don't see anything
> >> > wrong about that,
> >>
> >> Please consider that many artists get/got lousy royalty deals when
> >> they are/were young. Managers and recording companies took terrible
> >> advantage of them and the money went elsewhere.
> >
> > snip
> >
> >> 'Because it's s den of thieves...'
> >
> > Where is the den of thieves again?
>
> you, us, linux users, and anyone else who shares a passion for
> free-as-in-freedom culture.

Oh, so not the people taking advantage of the young artists?

drew