The thing about this that really irks me is that this is the same music industry, that when losing sales due to illegal downloading/file sharing of mp3s, claims that such piracy is endangering the future of recorded music. That may be so, but the industry likes to paint itself as being concerned almost solely with the the sustained creation of art and music, yet actions such as those listed above don't seem to correlate with such principles. Once again, the industry has shown itself to be concerned with little more than money...if the record industry was in such bad shape then would record company CEO's be driving around in limousine's, living in mansions? Would Robbie Williams have an £80,000,000 record deal? Would Mariah Carey have signed a similarly large deal, only to be dumped after two albums with a multi-million dollar severance package?
I am fully aware that the music business is concerned solely with profit - it is an industry and I understand that. I just wish that it would stop trying to make music lovers feel sorry for it when they continually fail to understand what it means to love music, to listen, study and absorb it.
Today's transcribers are tomorrow's musicians.
This is like suing a kid in the park who's wearing an England shirt with 'Beckham, 7' on the back for assuming a false identity...it's ridiculous.
