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Roger Waters Thinks Silicon Valley if Full of Thieves

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By Eddie Berman.GabeMc at en.wikipedia [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters is no fan of technology.  In fact, he even thinks Silicon Valley is stealing from music creators.

“I feel enormously privileged to have been born in 1943 and not 1983, to have been around when there was a music business,” Waters told the London Times this past week.

Back in those days, Waters says you could “still make a living writing and recording songs and playing them to people. This gallery of rogues and thieves had not yet interjected themselves between the people who aspire to be creative and their potential audience and steal every f***ing cent anybody ever made and put it in their pockets to buy f***ing huge meg-yachts and Gulfstream Fives.”

Waters isn’t the only member of Pink Floyd to speak out against digital music. As Rolling Stone points out, drummer Nick Mason claimed that U2’s release of Songs Of Innocence in September of 2014 devalued music.  The album was offered to over 500 millions iTunes users at no cost.

 

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