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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm having trouble finding a link to substantiate it, but I remember in the early 2000's a group of artists having to sue their record labels because of the lawsuits on file-sharing users. The record labels said they were doing it for the artists, but the artists had to sue the record labels to even ever see a penny from the fruits of those lawsuits. The record labels were just pocketing the money for themselves while saying it was "for the artists."

Anyway, long story short is that kind of behavior from the recording industry made me want to give money directly to the artists and cut out these selfish middlemen who did nothing but claimed all the profits.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Surely you’re not saying that record labels are dishonest?!

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

Not enough clutching