Imagine for instance, if long ago, a guitar player in the southern united states thought up the walking bass riff and immediately copyrighted/patented it. That would mean very little if ANY blues music would ever be recorded, depending on if he was open to licensing. No blues music means no country, no r&b, and no rock & roll! Basically, no american music! No american music, no Recording Industry Association of America! Without the free sharing of intellectual “property”, the corporations bent on utter monopolization of industries built on those artistic and intellectual materials, there would be NO INDUSTRY TO RULE in the first place.
The RIAA owes its very existence to the process it is trying to outlaw and all the devices which have made the audience/creators of american music grow to the level of involvement it is today. The record labels’ level of inhumane greed and bills such as this ‘Induce Act’ which seek similar ends are of no benefit to the common good, nor to the actual creators of american music. Such thinking is fundamentally flawed.