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Old 05-03-2010, 07:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by loveissucide View Post
It may have something to do with the fact such things are a legal nightmare and hugely expensive were the musicians to be reimbursed.
I can't see how this would be legally troubling. From my understanding, you could only upload music if you owned the rights to it. So you'd be a label or an artist uploading music anyway.

And if it was so expensive, why not just stop sharing revenue? It would still suck but it'd remain a very powerful tool of promotion.

I just think it's stupid to abandon something that really made them blow up in the last few years. They show up near the top for nearly every musician's google results, with a promise of "free listening"... well that's BS now because to actually listen to them you'd have to turn on the radio and hope they come on.
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