Once upon a time, there was a world where EVERYONE would have to buy one album just to hear one song. Then the technology got better and computers made everything easy. You can now listen to a song from an album without having to buy the album. A group of musical Robin Hoods came into play. They wanted to share music so that everyone could hear it and have it. But then a group of rich meddlers decided to make a company called RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). They wanted to “protect” artists’ money and music and believed that if we “peasants” wanted to hear music, we should buy it.

Although that is a VERY rough description of what’s going on right now, it pretty much tells the whole story about how the rich get richer and the poor… Well just don’t get much out of it.

Yeah sure, you can argue that the music artists make is “THEIR” work and they worked hard for it. Or you can also say that artists are workers like you and I trying to make a living and feed their families. But consider this, how many Usher’s, Lil Jon’s, Michael Jackson’s have filed for bankruptcy or said they don’t have money so they live in a 1st floor apartment paying $31 per month?

Artists make, what would take me a lifetime to earn in sweat and blood, in one concert about a million dollars, depending how famous that artist is. And for those known/unknown artists that aren’t that famous, they make about a thousand to ten thousand dollars per concert. PSH! I wish I could make that money working at a Mexican restaurant.

The RIAA really is just a joke. They say that they fight for the rights and protect songs made by artists. But my neighbor sings and makes his own songs, are his protected to?

In the the end, RIAA wanted Limewire to pay $1.5 trillion (that’s $750 per copyright infringement multiplied by 200 million “estimated” occurrences of copyright infringement). Morons.

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When it comes to cool artists (cool being the bottom of the acceptable list), I know mostly all of them. Justin Bieber rings just crickets in my head. I didn't know him when I decided to post this so before I posted this and bash him, I looked him up on Wikipedia.com for more info on him.

Turns out that he's a bastard child, no offense to him but more for his father. He's dad up and left before Bieber was born. Mommy worked as a single mother in a low wage job like the 70% of single mothers in the USA. Bieber taught himself to play drums, piano, trumpet, and guitar. When the kid turned 12, he won second place in a singing contest singing to Ne-Yo's "So Sick". His mom put up that video and some others on YouTube for friends and family to see... Some high up there dude with the music industry clicked on Bieber's video, "by accident" and he realized there was money to be made. He got the hook up and tracked the clueless kid down. Once he found him, Scooter Braun, the dude that tracked down Justin, got permission to use the kid and finally sang with Usher. He was 13 when that happened.

In one year a kid taught himself to play 4 instruments, got second place in a singing contest, was stalked, kidnapped and finally realized he had a talent.

He is 16 years old now and annoying! Every kid who has been born from 1995 till now either wants to mate with him, be him, or just wanna touch him. Hey, you can have him! I just don't like the fact that there are millions of kids that HAVE talent but haven't had their links clicked on "accidentally" by some dude in the music industry.

Kudos to the little prick though. I wonder how his dad feels about him now? O_o

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