BINGO! My sentiments exactly. Every year the labels announce BILLIONS in profits, Pandora and the like announce 10's to 100's of MILLIONS paid out. PENNIES are reaching the artists and the labels are raking in the big bucks.

This. Most of the money you pay for music never even gets to the artist, the record label keeps it.

The DMCA is a SHITTY law that needs to go away completely!

Exactly! And labels are notorious intellectual property thieves, for example: what Little Richard said about living in poverty until Michael Jackson returned the rights to his music to him. This isn’t about artists getting their due, if Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift think that that’s their own misinformed ego speaking.…

I was too young to really understand, but cousins used to talk about how movie and music labels tried to fight VHS tapes and cassettes being sold to the public as they made it too easy to steal their works. Said they wanted a special tax on tapes and cassettes to make up for their lost profits. They lost their case…

I almost feel like they are standing at the top of the mountain and want that chilling effect on the one’s below them. Fuck it, I am 100% sure.

My main issue with this is that this is not about paying artists what they’re worth (for which I am very much in favor). This is about changing the nature and purpose of rights laws to better support large corporations in the changing landscape of the internet.

The DMCA needs to be updated and changed, no doubt about it, but this is the wrong way to go about it. This would have a chilling effect on smaller artists and content creators on YouTube. Hank Green, half of the Vlogbrothers and musician, has been talking about this on his channel and his Twitter for awhile.

AppGameKit2 is available for PC, picked it up on a bundle a while back, it’s super simple, and can export for PC, iOS and Android

Meanwhile, countless other private servers ARE left untouched because they haven’t reached critical mass yet and thus aren’t financially viable to pursue.