IT IS MY CHOICE to decide which websites get to exploit my songs.   Like it or not, the right to control one's intellectual property (like songs) is a constitutional right.  It is also part of every international human rights agreement. Technology company funded blogs that think there should be no song copyrights are actually advocating violating my constitutional and human rights! Many in the digital music industry rightfully condemn the past exploitation of artists by record labels.  But at the same time they seem to be doing the same thing.  Trying to bully artists into giving up their rights so that companies like MegaUpload or YouTube can make money is  the same thing. With exploitative record contracts The Old Boss tried  to take your songs a dozen at a time and pay you pennies.  The New Boss wants to take ALL of your songs,  past present and future and pay you nothing. I'll make technologists a deal, I'll give up my song copyrights if you give up your software patents.  Software patents are even less unique than your typical song.   So this should be easy right? When Napster and P2P came along honestly I wasn't pleased.   At best I was ambivalent.  I thought that we'd lose sales to large scale sharing but through more efficient distribution systems and disintermediation we artists would net more.   So like many other artists I embraced the new paradigm and waited for the flow of revenue to the artists to increase.  It never did. In