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Re: The real reason?
01/24/12 02:54 AM
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> > I read an article just this morning that part fo the reason for the bust weas
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> > mega was PAYING people directly to upload movies and music.
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> Yeah, but this would be paying the actual -artists- who upload their music.
> Presumably this would also go for indie bands and whatnot.
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> If that site had gone fully public and was kept 100% legal, it would've murdered
> Apple's near-monopoly on music.
Unlikely. Napster tried and failed, and plenty of others have as well. Paying the artists and indie bands directly is great in theory, but it's always going to be small potatoes. Anyone who's signed a record contract will be forbidden from doing it, and like it or not, you need to have the majors on board to even have a prayer of coming close to the kind of volume iTunes does.
I'm no fan of Big Content, but the Megaupload guys were pretty flagrantly violating copyright law and making money hand over fist doing it. It was just a matter of time before their number was up.
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