{"id":197029,"date":"2008-03-06T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/06\/this-is-funny-in-a-very-sad-way\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T04:13:00","slug":"this-is-funny-in-a-very-sad-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/06\/this-is-funny-in-a-very-sad-way\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Funny, in a Very Sad Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that musicians are disappointed that they haven&#8217;t seen any money as a result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9887167-7.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e703\">royalty deals that Youtube cut with the RIAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are expecting to get some money out of their record distributors?<\/p>\n<p>What are they smoking????<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;Yeah&#8230;They are rock and rollers&#8230;.<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">That&#8217;s<\/span> what they are smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, the RIAA does not, and has no interest in, raising money for the artists.  They represent the record distributors, who make money by shafting the artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that musicians are disappointed that they haven&#8217;t seen any money as a result of the royalty deals that Youtube cut with the RIAA. They are expecting to get some money out of their record distributors? What are they smoking???? Oh&#8230;Yeah&#8230;They are rock and rollers&#8230;.That&#8217;s what they are smoking. Seriously though, the RIAA does &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1134,970,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-copyright","category-corruption","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}