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4th May 2015, 8:16 AM
	Neil Forbes Rock, Country or R. & B. - Classic Hits for me! Member since Dec 2014 252 Points	biffbampow wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: There's got to be room for all record companies, large and small, to exist together in the marketplace WITHOUT the threat of being swallowed up in one gulp by the larger companies. Some may think I'm a conspiracy theorist but I do reckon we'll end up with just one company owning the entire lot which in turn will get swallowed up by Google sometime over the next twenty years. The way Google keep silently expanding and making tons of money, all the while trashing all copyright laws that stand in their way is disturbing. Google have done absolutely NOTHING to stop music piracy. Go to Blogger and there's tons of music blogs rampantly giving away everything. Google's DMCA system is a disgrace and is deliberately as long winded and awkward as possible. Oh... they might take two weeks before they even look at your DMCA and that's several thousand more possible sales lost... and all the while, Google keep raking in the revenue from ads. Biffbampow, you've hit the nail on the head! Universal(MCA) seems hell-bent on owning the recording(mechanical) and sheet music rights to everything ever recorded, even if it means gulping down BMG, Sony, Warner, Festival(Australia) and any other company they can get their ever-so-greedy hands on, then Google will just gulp the lot down in one byte...er.. bite! But seriously, this needs to be stopped, even if draconian measures are brought in to do so. As for marketing music. the internet SHOULD PLAY ABSOLUTELY NO PART WHATSOEVER! Music should be sold exclusively by the good old "bricks & mortar" shop in the high street, whether its on CD or vinyl, or even cassettes(let's face it, the mini-disc system, while useful in community radio stations for corporate sponsorship spots or station promo's and identification spots, never really "took off" as a medium for music distribution, did it?). At least that way, gainful employment could be offered to those who have a passion for music in any genre.