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Answers: cuz i'm pretty sure
[insert random band] is not getting any cash
if I go out && buy a cd
from a resale place

&& someone one had to buy
a song to put it on limewire

so in theory
wouldn*t the modern
day resale shop
be limewire or
another sharing program?

just a random thought.

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Not necessarily because someone had to buy that CD in the first place to give it to the resale store which sales it and taxes out taxes for the purchase. The problem with things like limewire is that its TOTALLY free. No tax. No Buy. Since the government cant get any money from it, they deem it bad.

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Well, they do inspect those resale shops for bootleg music if that is what you are thinking.

Here is what you are not seeing.

The music is not being rebroadcast, played that is.

It is not being retransmitted, sent over the airways.

Or being redistributed, copied and sold a new.

So the artist gets no royalties because the artist already recieved the royalties for those CDs the first time they were sold.

Limewire is designed both to redistribute music and rebroadcast it.

You would have been closer if you have picked on the radio, but they pay royalties to retransmit and it is illegal to tape them, but people do that on their own.

Anyway, that is why resale stores do not get in the same trouble as Limewire.

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