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Originally Posted by His Infernal Majesty
I don't see how these two things correlate at all. A lot of bands get zero radio play still do well and do not want their records pirated. Now they have to hire a DMCA firm for a few hundred a month on top of their other expenses so KimDotCom can have 10 luxury cars?
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if you want to shut down mega upload because of the piracy problem
then independent artist should have the same right to shut down radio stations who refuse to give them equal play time.
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Left alone? People shouldn't sign bad deals. I think the piracy advocates leech onto this argument just to justify their stealing. They are two separate things. Record labels stealing from artists gives pirates the right to make money off the artists, too, without their consent? When the record labels fall, what then?
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not what i advocated, at all, i said the government should have left mega upload up, for the independents and simply took down the pirated content only.
Personally i believe that fair use should be protected equal to copyright
if a copyright holder infringes on a fair use, those people should have a right to sue for statutory damages of 25k per infringement
if the copyright holder destroys a business based on fair use, that business should have a right to ask for every copyright to be voided (unless the copyright holder adequately compensates the wrongfully accused for their losses).
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I compared it to a flawed system to try to justify your own numbers. But you also brought up Coulton who made $500,000 selling his albums on his own at full price NOT through megauploads shit affiliate program! How is that the scum bag way that I support artists controlling their OWN distribution as significantly better than any other way? You just sound like a record label exec now in support of just another way against that endgame.
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accept that not what your advocating, your supporting the shutting down of mega upload
instead of just taking control and running the site for all the people who used in the legit way.
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"1st of all I am soooo proud of my brother @THEREALSWIZZZ 4 being apart of creating something (MEGAUPLOAD) that could create the most powerful way 4 artist 2 get 90% off of every dollar despite the music being downloaded 4 free... "
Here's the thing about that quote. While it is true they would be promised 90% off every dollar made, there is no telling what the VALUE of each song or each album would be. Each whole album might be worth literally less than one cent in this new way. So KimDotCom gets to dictate that now? They can be so desperate to get off the current system that they can end up in a significantly worse ecosystem.
Some artists (like Kid Rock) are not even happy to sell a song at $1 on itunes. It should be their choice. The current Megaupload system devalued their work till it was worth practically nothing. 90% of practically nothing. Great!
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well since you get to set your own price, and it the market that decides weather people will actually buy or simply download the song for free.
The argument that you should have a right to force people to pay non market driven prices for abundant goods is the most anti free market statement you can make.
there is a model that allows to as much money as you want, even if copyright was completely destroyed.