Today, MySpace accounced the blocking of the ProjectPlaylist.com embeds. RIAA has been kicking ass when it comes to killing P2P and free music. Apparently it really hurts the RIAA when people download "illegal" and free music.

So why did MySpace make this move? MySpace is the most popular internet social network in the world. MySpace has music artists known and unknown to us normal people. The majority of those known and unknown music artists make millions of dollars per year on their music. Understandably, I'd be mad if people "stole" my creations. But an album that takes 3 months to make and makes me a few million dollars, I'd be happy to share for free. After I get back what I had to pay for, producers, CD making, editing, advertisements, etc.



But think about this, those artists put up concerts. Concerts to me for them are a way to make even MORE money. Each seat in a concert is averaged at $70. In an average arena, it can seat 15,000 people. Not to mention those that are standing. Let's do some basic GED math :) $70 x 15,000 = 1,050,000. Each night, an artist or band makes one million and fifty thousand dollars ($1,050,000). Minus the payment to use it, which pays for security, food, and employee costs. We're now looking at, at least $900,000. That is PER concert, which when artists tour, that is about 50 concerts. $50,000,000 per year and they still have the damn nerve to complain!

That's not all, iTunes, Napster, MySpace, and other services that sell music give a portion to those artists. STINGY!

No wonder there are P2P MP3 download programs :)

With that said, MySpace along with the artists are in it for the $$$.

You decide. Comment, share, keep it uncensored!