Sir Mick Jagger is pretty much relaxed on illegal downloading, because the artists have always been struggling � long before the invention of peer-to-peer networks they were the record studios who were ripping them off. He actually admits the performers could never breathe free but a shot period of 25 years since the creation of recorded music.

Today record studios show themselves as the ones who want to defend starving performers, trying to look like the noble companies that are only aimed at protecting interests of artists and just a little money making in the process. However, it is widely known that record studios have a long and appalling history of stealing from musicians and doing all to cheat their financial success, the victims including The Rolling Stones.

Sir Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones� frontman, admitted that at the beginning of their career the band members hadn�t receive any money from their records, just because record labels wouldn�t pay them. And not only them � they wouldn�t pay anyone.

Lots of other artists agree to his words. Kid Rock noted that at the time, they knew Otis Redding�s and Chuck Berry�s and Fats Domino�s stories of never getting paid. So it could be found rather ironic that the very same labels that used to steal from musicians for many years are now pleading them to ask other parties not to do the same to entertainment industry.

Talking about copyright infringement by illegal downloading, Sir Mick Jagger feels relaxed on the question. He still believes the threat of P2P can cause a considerable change which can only mean artists will not earn on music as much as before, but the musicians have been struggling for money for a long time in the history of recorded music. Sir Jagger says after recorded music was invented back in 1900, he can remember of only a short 25 years of performers doing well. But within the other years they kept struggled.

David J.Hahn, a freelance pianist, has concluded last year that the musicians have been in the world no less than humans have. However, the recorded music is quite a new invention, if we recall the music careers of Mozart and Beethoven

The point all the artists agree on is that it�s definitely not their job to mend a business model which can�t work properly. According to the results of a last year Harvard study, the number of recordings made in this century has at least doubled, which proves that music itself doesn�t suffer, but the current business model instead.


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