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Opening Pandora’s Box

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FOSS Force; By Dave Bean 		Mail this story
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I first placed music online in 1996, a WAV file recorded through a microphone to promote the sale of an album I had under license on my indie BeanBag label featuring Georgie Fame and Van Morrison. I cheered for other music industry executives like Larry Rosen of GRP Records when he launched Music Boulevard online around 1997. I licensed songs by Jesse Colin Young (founder of The Youngbloods) to music publishing expert Bob Kohn’s eMusic.com for a cash advance against future royalties that had us partying like it was 1999.

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notbob ·
This is too much. One rip-off copyright owner/media distributor kvetching about how evil and unfair OTHER copyright owners/media distributors are. In the meantime, the artists continue to get bent over the table and hosed jes like they have been for the past century, all the while, the artists and their fans continue to be separated and exploited even further by the greedy SOBs who claim to be their saviors. What a steaming pile of horsepuckey.
Bob_Robertson ·
I enjoyed his blaming people enjoying music for "the state of music now".

Not, of course, his own grasping paws desperately clinging to a failed business model.

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