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It's baffled me for a long time just how the RIAA has got away with its demonisation of MP3 file sharing - why they do so is clear enough; anything that challenges their profits and, more important, their control has to be trashed.

They are, however, an organisation that has specialised in screwing both ends for well over half a century - musicians worse than punters, for the most part - and it was refreshing and cheering to find this article by Janis Ian.

Read it.