What value does the music industry add to artist's work...?

[mike_c]

14. that's been more or less my take as well....

Which really begs the question: what is legislation like SOPA or PIPA meant to protect, other than the profits of an industry that is increasingly anachronistic and unnecessary? If they actually had a business model that added value to artists, it seems to me that consumers would reward them well (as they actually did up until the 1990s). Now, all they seem to be doing is clinging to the past, telling legislators that it's not fair the world moved on.

In that legislative atmosphere, we would all still be using horse and buggy because those new fangled automo-whatsits threaten the profits of the carriage industry.