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The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme

Unless they pay every single independent musician his or her accurately proportionate share of the revenues, this proposal would make the established stars even richer at the expense of the small fry like me. Either I would become nothing more than a rounding error in Paul McCartney's favor, or I would get royalty checks not worth cashing. In reality, of course, the effect would be permanently deferred royalties.