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I'm shocked that Grooveshark has made it this long. Especially when you compare it to the legal cases successfully prosecuted against individuals for file sharing which were clearly not commercial. A part of this that I don't hear people discussing is that for a legal right to remain relevant it needs to be enforced. If legal and cultural precedent move towards a weakening of copyright in general, then certainly the music business (and all digital content business) will be drastically affected, even if in a specific instance (Grooveshark) they are not losing revenues. Another thing that I think many people aren't aware of is how expensive it is to produce and market music. It's insanely expensive. The vast majority of artists with actual record deals don't come close to recouping the expense. The labels have always made money on hits, which have to cover the costs of producing and marketing them, plus all the costs of the non-hits. I'm curious, do folks on this forum who are anti copyright enforcement for music feel the same way about software?


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