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I'm in a band. No we don't play arena fucking stadiums and we don't get paid shit when we tour....gas money if we're lucky, and we're happy about it. If I was on somebody else's computer and saw that they had downloaded some of our songs, this would make me ecstatic. They obviously like my band and enjoy listening to the music, and since we don't have anything on cd, whoever would have made the extra effort to transfer vinyl to mp3 would make me all the more ecstatic. If I ever caught myself saying, "...we're losing money because kids can't afford to buy our record but still want to listen..." I'd fucking shoot myself in the foot. We aim to break even.
And I know it's not the actual bands who are issuing the lawsuits, but you know most of them probably could care less.
Major labels just happen to have the best lawyers on the planet, so this could get interesting. Greedy motherfuckers, nothing more. It's a revolution that they can do nothing about.
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