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I am (seriously) waiting for anti-piracy messages to show up as audio tracks on the CDs themselves — and then to be included as part of each song’s track, too.<\/p>\n
If the recording industry put as much effort into producing stuff that the (majority honest) buyers wanted to buy as they put into harrassing the (majority honest) buyers they depend upon, we’d have a new musical renaissance upon us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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