RIAA's Copyright Lawsuit Budget Drastically Reduced

[lamorpa]

90% of the comment here are, "it's inconvenient for me to pay for something I get, so they are villains." Laughable transparency.

 

[Cazalan]

RIAA is like Apple on crack. Instead of 30% royalty that Apple wants for every app/song, the RIAA want's 95%.

The music industry has completely changed. You can find more talent on Youtube these days.

 

[asiaprime]

think everyone is missing this point...

rough 2008 estimates (millions)
$50 in payments
$16.5 lawyer
$6.8 lobbying
$9 staff
$2 ceo
$3 (estimate )

$12.7 to musicians... say it covers 1000 musicians...

$12,700.00/musician

 

[asiaprime]

oops forgot to add '-' signs for everything from the 50 million & the 3 million is for second level execs.

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]asiaprime[/nom]think everyone is missing this point...rough 2008 estimates (millions)$50 in payments$16.5 lawyer$6.8 lobbying$9 staff$2 ceo$3 (estimate )$12.7 to musicians... say it covers 1000 musicians...$12,700.00/musician[/citation]
So you're saying the musicians might get paid 3 times as much if people didn't steal the music?

 

[lamorpa]

As far as the CEO discussion goes, people do realize that unless they are sure they themselves would turn down a $3M/year job on what they are defining as a matter of principle, they are total hypocrites. Right?