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Originally Posted by gideongallery
and what exactly about the statement
if record companies force torrent sites and tube sites to keyword filter song titles (see isohunt case) then cover songs would be squashed too
good bye marie digby
good bye ever artist which uses covers to find an audience.
the success i am talking about is dependent in part to having those technologies allowed to operate uncensored.
and every example i gave you was dependent on those technologies remaining uncensored.
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Technically if someone records a cover song and then uses it to make money they should be paying royalties to the original song writer or the holder of the publishing for that song. Somehow I doubt all of those using covers to build an audience are doing so. This means that these people are also fucking over the artists. The record company fucks the artist (no argument on that) and so do all these people who record their songs, get tons of views on YouTube and sell downloads/CDs without paying royalties.
And whatever happened to writing your own songs and building up an audience with your own talent and your own words? I guess it is easier these days just to piggy back and make money off of other people's work.