..to agree to allow them to pay artist less
“Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for “innovative” music distribution.”
go visit IGN here –> to read the entire article
“We hope the judges will restore the proper balance by reducing the rate and moving to a more flexible percentage rate structure so that record companies can continue to create the sound recordings that drive revenues for music publishers.” In simple terms, they want less money in the pockets of the artists for the work they created.
Biebs' World 
Ha ha. If anybody didn’t think these guys were slimeballs before, it should be pretty obvious by now.
Not only are they trying to make it as hard as possible to purchase and listen to their product, they’re trying to make sure no one even wants to manufacture it!
the ppl pirating music are not going to be the ones putting them out of business its going to be themselves