theres a bag of free IP for ya Sean, now go troll elsewhere. people on p2pnet are far from uneducated and self serving.
are you really that fucking retarded that you ACUTALLY think a 2000%-4000% increase is fair?

stw

Sadly, much like the Sean Hannitys and Bill O’Reillys of the world, advocates against IP (Intellectual Property, read: copyright) largely read what they want to read, ignore or dismiss the other side and fail to get their facts; relying instead on what they want to believe is happening. I’m all for revamping copyright, it’s dated and showing a lot of cracks; and it is being addressed slowly. But I’m not willing to see creative people pay the price in the interim because people feel everything they use should be free.

SOCAN is a not-for-profit, representing and collecting on behalf of music writers, who for the most part starve to death (we’re not talking artists here) without the backend (Performance Royalties). The lack of education outside of the industry is mind blowing and if anything, SOCAN’s shortcoming is in not being able to educate everyone as to what they do. “Rip(ping) off everybody and anybody” isn’t in their mandate. If you want to use something, you rent it or you buy it, be it a circular saw or a car. IP is no different and arguments to the contrary are uneducated, self-serving or more often both.

Do you think for a moment if I was a caterer and had to pay even $5000 that I would play music for people? Forget that. Those folks can bring their own music if they want it that bad.

All I see here is an industry so greedy that they have lost all touch with reality and what normal folks that work for a living make. Since no one will be able to afford it, they may make the first year on fines to people that don’t know about the rate increase. Those that do won’t be playing the major labels stuff no more. Can’t say I blame them.