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Title: 'Piracy': Why the Cure's Robert Smith doesn't get it Post by: Alex on March 22, 2009, 07:24:31 PM 'Piracy': Why the Cure's Robert Smith doesn't get it
In what some have called a stubborn refusal to recognise that business models must adapt with the times, Robert Smith of the Cure has repeated a common refrain--one we are well used to hearing from the likes of the RIAA, among others--that we must "think of the artist". Responding to online criticisms of an earlier blog post he made, Smith has let it be know that he thinks that "IT SEEMS A FEW PROFESSIONAL APOLOGISTS (YOU HAVE TO LOVE THEM!) OUT THERE DISAGREE WITH MY 'EVERY ARTIST SHOULD VALUE THEIR ART' MUSING AND THINK ITS OK FOR ART - MUSIC IN PARTICULAR - TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FREE FOR ALL...". Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/PbL-LtsRvkA/piracy-why-the-cures-robert-smith-doesnt-get-it |