Like a drunken, insane Joseph McCarthy, a paranoid music industry sees piracy and revenue loss (communism!) everywhere it looks. Now they’re proposing a six percent royalty on all used CD sales – to be paid out by used CD stores.
Of course, now you have the following screw: Promo CDs, which are all charged against the artist’s royalties, are sent out as quasi-cash/payola to store buyers, radio stations, and reviewers, who turn around and resell them to used CD shops. So now you paying royalties on something that was given away for free (with a negative royalty against the artist)
Let me repeat for the record… Once I’ve bought a CD, it belongs to me. I’m then free to do whatever I want with it afterwards.
And let me again repeat for the record… CD sales would probably go up if the industry released stuff that wasn’t shit.