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Max Livada's avatar

"In other words, industry insiders learned the wrong lesson from the Swift episode."

I'm waiting for the moment when an insider learns the right lesson! Might be here for a long, long while though.

And I hope that as people lose faith in the web, they slowly integrate back in the real world and we can bring some balance back into humanity.

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E.Z. Prine's avatar

The record companies have always been thugs. But since the explosion of thug training programs in the 80s -- what we call MBAs -- we've seen exploitative and mercenary behavior across industry. (Speaking as someone who attended one of those appalling programs.)

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