IIPA vs. open-source software A reminder from Ken at Popehat: “Every time you hum to yourself, you’re taking bread from the mouths of musicians.” Filed under: open source, RIAA and file sharing By Walter Olson March 22, 2010 4 Comments
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This is almost as good as the insane letter circulated by SCO in 2004 that claimed that the GNU General Public License is unconstitutional.
I don’t have the heart to tell them that some of their member orginization are running their web servers on open source platforms.
Strictly speaking, that should be, “Every time you hum to a paying audience, you’re taking bread from the mouths of musicians.”
True Tom T. When you hum to yourself you are taking bread from the mouths of the record companies because you aren’t buying a CD from them. The musicians only see a small bit of that money. (about 5%)