How Were Those "Piracy" Losses Calculated, Again?

NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer agreed with the RIAA on one point - artists were being deprived of money that was rightfully theirs.

Spitzer found $50 million owed to performers -- and managed to do it without shaking down pre-teens, grandmothers, and other internet users.

Spitzer's culprits? A Who's Who of the nation's top recording companies - members of the RIAA - who failed to maintain contact with artists and stopped making required royalty payments.


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