[Ti] 4 songs per second poll

[b]

Tarik Bilgin paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>Having said that, artists that make it on to the "top 200,000" that 
>Apple have compiled are _all_ without, exception, mainstream 
>bestsellers in their genre and do not need protecting imho.

Oh, I see, so if someone makes enough money, it's okay to steal their things?

Ironically, it is the smaller, up-and-coming acts, that are most 
likely to want their music 'out there' at any cost. I worked as a pro 
musician on-and-off for 35 years, also, and believe me, you probably 
have no idea how many groups are distributing their own music through 
Kazaa and Limewire to get exposure.

Most of the people downloading 'free' music are either evaluating for 
future purchase, or never were actually buyers, in the first place. 
On the one hand, some are actually increasing sales, and on the 
other, there was no lost 'potential' revenue, anyway.  Add in the 
fact that there's no packaging involved, and where is the so-called 
'catastrophic' cost to the record companies?

If the companies were so concerned about their rosters' well-being 
they wouldn't sign them to usurious contracts in the first place.

~flipper