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The saddest, stupidest sentence I've ever read

It comes late in Mike Arrington’s loutish attack on Billy Bragg’s modest suggestion that we need to start thinking seriously about creating a system to compensate musicians and other artists for the commercial use of their works online. Here’s what Arrington writes: “Recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive awareness of an artist.” I had to read that a few times to convince myself that he was serious. Here it is again: “Recorded…

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