Really, thanks for the history lesson about the term Mechanical Royalties, Statutory rate and 3/4 Rate, was taught that right from the beginning, just did not want to use those terms since most people outside the business never heard them. But there are always one or two condescending assholes like you out there that…

I worked in the Royalty Dept. and what you said about no royalties paid to the labels on anything given away is not entirely correct. Artist royalties were paid to label on all units sold and on 50% of the "Excess Free" units over those sold. The formula was (Free-Sold)/2 multiplied by the Sold rate which was about…