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Interesting you assume I am referring to your music Ben. I honestly don't think I've listened to any of your work, certainly not in the last couple years at least if ever and if I have ever heard your work, I have no memory of it's quality good or bad. You're a little paranoid I think. Trust me, people are NOT always talking about you.

My point, however, is still 100% valid no matter your age, style or talent. If you aren't writing music that already has a market and is selling, why would anyone on the planet have any need to steal it? What would they do with it? Publishers have hundreds of thousands of songs available that they can't get recorded which they already legally have the rights to. Same with hit songwriters. There's no market to steal songs from anyone who isn't commercially viable. And even in those cases, songwriting theft is actually quite rare. It's simply too hard to get anything recorded by anyone that can make money in the first place. Artist who DO consider outside songs aren't going to turn to a questionable resource to get them (i.e. from someone who would steal a song). And if there's any hint at a dispute over the song, they REALLY steer clear completely.

People need to get their music out there. If you wait until someone's paying for it, it's likely never going to get out there. Most people never place a single song in their lifetime with another artist. Even fewer ever make any money from it when they do. If people sit around afraid someone is going to steal something they could never give away if they wanted to, they have little chance to get anywhere, or to learn or to improve. If you think this is bad advice or it ruffles your feathers for some unknown reason, that's your own problem, not mine.

We checked out the user agreements from Ourstage and found them to be reasonable. If you or anyone else finds them not to be, then certainly don't post anything there. Everyone has different views on what is safe and what isn't.

Brian