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Music industry is dead

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Jerome Hudson, Breitbart • Thu 2016 Jun 30, 2:48pm

Legendary folk-rock singer Paul Simon says, after making music for more than 60 years, he’s ready to “let go” of the limelight and “see what happens.”

“Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” Simon told the New York Times in a recent interview.…

Finally ran out of songs, eh, Paul?
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Paul & friend in a Daily Doodle
Vic, Ace of Spades • Wed 2016 Apr 13, 2:36am

… speaking of idiot judges a judge has allowed a civil suit between the heirs of a Spirit band member and Led Zepplin over the opening notes to Stairway To Heaven has been allowed to procede. Any idiot with half a brain recognizes those notes as being from Beathovin's Moonlight Sonata.

http://tinyurl.com/nzj6ae3

betanews.com • Fri 2009 Jul 31, 11:49pmI think the recording industry is a culture-gutting abomination, and that the entire outfit ought to be torched like Rome during a Nero violin recital. Whatever figure the jury arrives at, the artists Mr. Tenenbaum loves will never see a cent of it; after over a century of treating most artists like sharecroppers, "the industry" takes the droit de seigneur approach to windfall profit…. Music is so much more than the music industry, and for the sake of music — the transmission of it, the longevity of the worthwhile stuff — I hope the industry which treats one of humankind's most powerful communication devices and repositories of memory like so much chattel withers and dies.
bloomberg.com • Sun 2009 Feb 15, 5:04pm

The world's biggest record companies sued college students, a 12-year-old girl and a dead woman and still failed to stamp out music piracy. Now they're turning to Internet service providers. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group and Sony Music Entertainment have gained leverage through court and government actions to pressure ISPs into warning customers not to steal music -- in some cases with a threat to cut service. Crowded networks are helping to soften U.S. and European access providers' resistance to working with record companies.