[Rumori] Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[Vicki Bennett]

And if every person gave the money to charity instead, or spent it on 
pornography or gave it to some homeless person or buried it in their 
garden, and a partridge in a pear tree.


>> Although songwriters typically earn only pennies for every sale of a 
>> recorded song, if every person who downloaded "Hard Knock Life" had 
>> bought a CD instead, Mr. Strouse would have collected at least 
>> $46,000 in royalty payments, assuming he would have received 4 cents 
>> a download.
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