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'Berman said. "At the end of the day, we want the people making that music to get paid for it, and we're going to continue to pursue this fight to that end." '

The nominal rate that an artist gets paid is 8 cents per cd, split between all the artists who worked on that cd, minus fees.

Where does the rest of that $18.95 go?

if you were to send a single penny to the artist for each song you download they would make more money than if you bought the cd.

The recording industry should just scrap their 'starving artists' argument and tell it like it is. They're rich and they want to become richer by gouging consumers.
Posted by: zijiang   Posted on: 03/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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This should be fun  vferrara | 03/30/04
Compulsory licensing  buxxmaster | 03/30/04
But it doesn't solve the problem  voska | 03/30/04
Could not have summed it up better!!!  bchesmer | 03/30/04
This backfireing big time  voska | 03/30/04
stow it berman  zijiang | 03/30/04
so what happens when...  ryusen | 03/30/04
(NT) lol, I can't wait  zijiang | 03/30/04
Hatch keeps pitching  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
Suits Happen!!!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Lawyers love it(NT)  voska | 03/30/04
"First let's kill all the lawyers!" - William Shakespeare  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
When your business model has outlived its viability..  B.O.F.H. | 03/30/04
What hogwash!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Except one thing  voska | 03/30/04
Another false premise.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
Try reading the whole post  voska | 03/30/04
Simply isn't true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/30/04
What's that have to do with the problem  voska | 03/31/04
blah blah blah IT'S STEALING!!!!!!!  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
why should they change?  ryusen | 03/30/04
Change the out-of-date people  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
problem with your argument...  ryusen | 03/30/04
Motive is always money  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
money is a short term goal...  ryusen | 03/31/04
blah blah blah IT'S STEALING!!!!!!!  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
Whadda know ... just like SCO!  troy@... | 03/31/04
RIAA  aquabob | 03/31/04
Re: Business Model  Rabid Conservative | 03/31/04
RIAA shouldnt dictate  ParadigmOdyssey | 03/30/04
the music industry made $32.2 billion in 2002  Hanover Phist | 03/30/04
Harvard Study - p2p doesn't kill CD sales  cybershoplifter | 03/30/04
I agree....  wayne.p | 03/31/04
Is the industry listening?  AbsolutelyNot | 03/30/04
So far, Canada says no dice!  KHEL_z | 04/01/04

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