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1. Comment - ASCAP wants money for your ringtone

   (Jul 4, 2009 - 8:01 PM)

   As for the Electronic Frontier Organization, they're trying to get rid of copyrights so that all the tech companies, for which they are a lobby, can have free content for all their devices that they're making billions of dollars on. Want to get rid of copyrights? Ok. Then let's get rid of patents too. So no protection for gadgets, etc.

2. Comment - ASCAP wants money for your ringtone

   (Jul 4, 2009 - 7:55 PM)

   I'll tell you what's ridiculous: saying that ASCAP (and by inferral, BMI and other performing rights organizations that help artists to actually be able to make a living despite the illegal downloading of music) is like (or worse) than the RIAA. Thank god for my performing rights organization or I couldn't have paid my rent last month, even though tens of thousands of people are listening to my music on internet radio. I see very few people in these kinds of comments defending, or even trying to take the point of view of the artist. All that's done is defending the "consumers" point of view and thoughtlessly vilifying any organization involved with the music industry, as if they're all evil. Yes, some of them have simply been middle men taking money from artists like me for decades. But others have been the allies of artists helping them to get the respect they deserve and to see that they're paid for their hard work the same as any other vocation to which someone devotes their life.