Just looking at the bill and crunching numbers, we're looking at musicians alone losing $41 million in revenue through the mechanical royalties that are being taken away. If we don't update the digital levee—and my colleagues seem to think this is the greatest political campaign they can run on, because they're going to lie about the numbers—we're looking at a $35 million shortfall for musicians.
We've been told that the market will be restored if we adopt the mechanisms of lock and litigate. But is there any evidence that individual musicians, individual creators, are going to be able to make any living through locking and litigating if they're not being remunerated for the copying of their work?