{"id":646,"date":"2009-12-14T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-12-14T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T17:42:49","slug":"hoist-by-their-own-petard-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Hoist by their own petard (I hope)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recording industry has long been pushing for <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/06\/jammie-thomas-retrial-verdict.ars\">incredibly punitive awards<\/a> against people who download music. Well, now there is a lawsuit by the artists against the music companies that has the potential to damage their earnings severely. How severely? <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/12\/artists-lawsuit-major-record-labels-are-the-real-pirates.ars?\">Try between $50 million and $6 billion severely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janisian.com\/article-internet_debacle.html\">Janis Ian wrote a widely-read article about song downloads in 2002<\/a>. She was, and is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janisian.com\/mp3_downloads.html\">in favor of them<\/a>. You should read the whole article; it&#8217;s very informative and insightful. Her comments with respect to her personal experiences with the record companies are pertinent to the lawsuit&#8217;s claims, to wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again, from personal experience: in 37 years as a recording artist, I&#8217;ve created 25+ albums for major labels, and I&#8217;ve never once received a royalty check that didn&#8217;t show I owed them money.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devilskitchen.me.uk\/2009\/12\/o-delicious-irony.html\">The Devil&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recording industry has long been pushing for incredibly punitive awards against people who download music. Well, now there is a lawsuit by the artists against the music companies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-legal-affairs","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}