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don't you get it? we are not talking about artists per se, we are talking about Jamaicans who recorded this music 40 years ago...now if you really believe that these Jamaicans (a lot of whom are dead anyway) are getting royalty for blank CDs then I guess it's time for you to move to a mental asylum

and to annoy our righteous friends a bit more: those who interested in getting these studio one CDs may send me a PM, they (or at leasts parts of them) are currently shared at a filesharing community

seen as no-one else is giving up the info, have a look on pirate bay or isohunt search for studio one singles, there's piles of the stuff.
Here's my 2cents. I will by what I can, but only off indie labels, those big boys wont get any £££ from me. At the same time no-one is getting money from me at the moment as I'm unemployed with a 13 week old son! So I have downloaded things (like the studio one singles) as this stuff keeps me sane and my head above water in day to day life. When I have the money to spend, I'll buy straight from indie labels & artists themselves.

Bleep&Boosta wrote:"why is making a mixtape for your friends not illegal?" ...this is deemed "Personal and fair use" ie it's not being shared for the proposes of making profits.

To play devil's advocate, the same can be said about sharing MP3s - they're not being shared for the purpose of profit.

...All this revenue is collected by the licensing authorities and divided up between the artists based on a percentage of their sales, so when you play your mix cd in a club for example, you're covered by the licensing laws and your mix cd is also benefitting the artist, by helping to promote him/her.

And you *really* believe that? LOL... That licensing fee and the levy on blank CDs is nothing but a cash grab by the music industry to reclaim the money they're losing from music piracy. Very little - if any - of that music goes to the artists. It's not like Junior Byles receives a nice cheque once a month because someone is playing a mix CD with "Fade Away" on it at a pub!

I'm not in favour of music piracy; it just cracks me up that people are putting their faith in the Babylon system that screws both artists and fans when it comes to music.

Yeah I do really believe that, what part of that sentence doesn't make sense to you?, you mean cdr revenue?

Listen I'm just trying to explain why it's legal to copy music to Cd, I know CDR sales make up nothing of any artists royalties, but really how much money could you charge someone for copying a cdr at home??? Obviously not much, which is about what they probably get.

Artists receive royalties and revenue collected through licensing, that's a fact, I don't see what the problem is, and I'll tell you what the mcps and prs do a really good job, even on small amounts. They don't rip anybody off, The Labels on the other Hand DO.