[zarf]

I've been advocating this for years. The only way to continue to allow unlimited downloading of all media is to charge at the source and distribute the income to the various industries as royalties.

Then you can still download all ya want. And the creators won't continue to get screwed.

[hunter112]

Creators will just have to get compensated in different ways, like charging for live performances. Then it comes round full circle, before radio, TV, phonographs and tapes, there was only the live performance.

The amount of money a performer got per listening of their songs was less than pennies for even the most popular. The record industry has just evolved into a set of pimps to exploit the talent of some of these people. Now, somebody's found a way to get satisfaction without paying the pimps, so they're acting nasty about losing "turf". Too bad, so sad.

[canuck_conservative]

But it's blatantly unfair!

What if I want to back up a bunch of non-music files onto CD? Why do I have to pay an extra fee to the RIAA? Screw them!