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Originally Posted by gideongallery
this was your original statement
you accused artist doing covers of ripping off the song writers
now you say it a time honored thing in music.
the fact is ruling like the one against isohunt are basically designed to prevent this process to leverage the new medium/technology.
To protect the abusive system of the record companies and to reduce the choice of musicians
to either sign with the record companies
or fail.
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Your primary problem is that you have a basic lack of being able to follow a conversation. If you put basic logic to use you will see how my statement evolved. I will break it down to you in a line by line format so you can follow it.
1. I said that people who are recording cover songs, posting them on YouTube then selling those songs are ripping off artists if they are not paying royalties for the songs they sell.
2. After some clarification you say that selling songs on iTunes and Amazon is a bitch and that the original artist must be credited and that the original writers do get their cut.
3. Having read that, I then said that I don't really have a problem with it so long as the the original writers are getting their fair royalties.
4. That is it. I made a statement, you clarified how the system works, I modified my statement and changed my opinion.
Yes, doing covers of songs is a time honored thing. Of course the main difference is that when band were covering songs as they start out they were playing for 20 people, not 500,000. Those views do make YouTube money, but I guess if you look at it right it is no different than the bar or club owner who hired a band to play profiting from that band playing cover songs.