Record Companies Need to Get Real.

Cut and paste has come to music. Remix is a hobby. And it is legitimate art. Technology empowers the bedroom mixer to create mass market quality music. But there are limits. Extensive sampling of old school music has led to a dearth of hit tunes being cranked out of the R&B/hip hop community. Is there more artistic integrity in remixing say NIN's "Only" than there is in lifting a riff from an old pop tune and building a song around it? There is if you don't take credit for it as this article from Roger Friedman indicates. The record industry would do well to police the theft of intellectual property from artist to artist rather crack down on some college kids swapping sub-par quality MP3s in their dorm room.