Unless you want to listen to a song they never play on the radio anymore and it is long since out of print. (Example: The Inexhaustible Quest For The Cosmic Cabbage by the Amboy Dukes) Then who is controlling it, smart guy?
When the RIAA deliberately sets exhorbitant fees designed to shut down internet-only radio stations, who is controlling it?
Why bother?
Yeah, why bother opening your mind to other points of view on this subject? Don't want to break that tunnel vision, for God's sake.
Bottom line: You are completely full of crap if you think it is the American way for record companies to restrict what you can and cannot listen to, which is exactly what is going on.
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You are!
Believe it not, Matt, You are an adult and you can decide if you are going to listen to a particular song. If you don't own the song, then you can go and buy it.. Or not. The choice is yours.
It's THEIR property... Now, if you don't like that then perhaps you should form a band and make your own music. Then tell the RIAA to go get screwed.
Physician, heal thyself.
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It IS the American way and they aren't "restricting" anything that's not theirs to 'restrict" in the first place.
Now stealing, that's "Un-American" You rationalize it, but the bottom line is that you are in the wrong.
I am honestly feeling sorry for you, because I don't think you're aware of the ignorance you're displaying in front of hordes of people. I don't mean that as a personal attack -- I'm being quite sincere when I say that I am starting to feel bad for you.
If there's a song "you want to listen to," and "they never play it on the radio anymore" and "it is long since out of print" ... well, you may just be out of luck. Unless the song has entered the public domain -- and the work of the Amboy Dukes has not -- them someone owns the copyright. You don't. And without that copyright holder's authorization, it's not yours to download or steal by any other means.
Perhaps the copyright holder is withholding the material to build demand for a future release. Perhaps the copyright holder is selfish and wants the music all for himself. Perhaps the copyright holder is just stupid, or bad at business.
Ultimately, the reasons aren't relevant. The bottom line is that it belongs to him, just like things you own belong to you.
You seem to view the world in terms of what YOU want, what YOU want, what YOU want. YOU want that song, or YOU want that album, and apparently it's YOUR RIGHT to have it.
I would suggest you brush up first on the basics of copyright law, learn a little about capitalism and our system of rights, and then return with a more informed argument.