iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and MySpace Team Up to Guilt You Into
Paying For Music  A group of online music industry giants,
including Apple, Amazon and MySpace, have teamed up to form "Why
Music Matters," a group aimed at turning pirates into
purchasers.  While I'm certainly not going to argue with the
value of paying for music, it's tough to take an earnest plea
for buying music seriously when it comes from business middlemen
rather than, you know, musicians.  In any case, members of Why
Music Matters get what they are calling a "Trustmark" to place
on their sites to let users know it's a legit site that will pay
the artists if you buy music. Another more obvious way to tell
if the site you're on will pay the artists is if it charges you
money. If not, you're pirating music! Good thing there's now a
Trustmark around so you won't make that mistake again. [Why
Music Matters via The Next Web]