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1. Comment - AllofMP3 Fights Critics, Loses Visa

   (Oct 22, 2006 - 2:24 PM)

   You guys seem unable to fathom even the simplest copyright laws. Stealing is stealing, doesn't matter if you break into someone's house and take something or if you plagiarize a body of work they've written. Doesn't matter if you stole the physical manuscript or not, you STOLE IT and profited. PC Tool (aptly named) is wrong as usual.
   
   AllofMp3's claim that they have tried to compensate the recording industry sounds alot like "the check is in the mail". And regardless, if someone stole your stuff, pawned it, then offered you 15% of the proceeds, would you legitimize their actions by accepting it? Why do you expect the RIAA, the labels, and yes, the artists to do the same?
   Isn't it a little fishy that AllofMp3 won't disclose the records on the royalty payments they claim they've offered?
   
   I record and release music. Do I want to make a mint? No. Do I expect to make a living? No, it'd be nice, but no. Do I expect to have power over where and how my music is made available? Yes. Recording isn't free, promotion isn't free, it costs MONEY to do this, and if you aren't at least breaking even, it's damned near impossible to maintain. If the little paracommunists like PCTool and others got their fat butts off the computer and actually tried to PRODUCE something, maybe they'd get it.