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Guns N' Roses Guitarist Slams 'Stupid Music Industry' (A Top Story)

. On Thursday Guns N' Roses Guitarist Slams 'Stupid Music Industry' was a top story. Here is the recap: (Classic Rock) Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal has called the music industry "stupid" and says they treated fans like criminals when peer-to-peer file sharing emerged at the turn of the century.

And he says rather than embracing the technology, record executives "made a mess" that they still don't know how to clean up.
He tells the Jakarta Informer: "It's not that Napster changed anything - it's that the stupid music industry didn't see this amazing technology and say, 'My God, we could do so much with this,' and instead tried to destroy it and tried to treat people as criminals.

"What can you do money-wise if a billion people download your songs for free? It could have been the tiniest little subscription - it could have been ads or sponsors. There are a million ways it could have been done and the music industry had a lot of time to figure it out."

He continues: "Instead, through their lawyers, they said, 'Go sue that 12-year-old kid,' and they screwed up everything." Read more - here.

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