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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
It doesn't.
People complaining about it just do not want to have to pay licensing fees.
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seriously
The fee that mega upload paid to individual musicians per download was greater then the fee that labels paid the artist for their music when they sell it.
And yet the studios were upset because they didn't get their 95%.
When the liciensing fees include profits of the competing methodology that hinder progress
because the new process doesn't just have to be superior to the old process
it has to keep the old process fully funded as well
Imagine if every car had a tax to cover the lost income of the buggy manufacturers /horse sellers/buggy whip manufacturers fully profitable.
That what the current system is doing to innovation
The home viewing marketplace was delayed by 14 years by copyright lawsuits
The mp3 market was delayed by 12 years by copyright lawsuits