amungus
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| Great, so now.......
My rates are higher for Rhapsody... I never even use the 'radio' streams they have. I much prefer to pick out the songs I'd like to hear on my own, thanks very much.
CD Baby used to list what each online distributor would pay out, and Rhapsody was a whopping 1 cent per stream; of that, CD Baby would pay out 9/10 of that penny to artists...
Sounds reasonable right? ...I'd bet signed artists never even see a dime from streams, and that their labels only pay out a small percentage of actual song sales from the likes of Rhapsody and iTunes. What a scam.
The cost of hosting and bandwidth is surely not much for compressed music, and I don't see how it can really go up...
So, this seems like a nice easy way for the royalties to magically increase for no other reason than pure greed. 
The "middle man" has largely been erased and even if it's still there, they deserve a much smaller cut than before... The world has changed and the ability for ANYONE with the desire to do it, CAN do it. I know SEVERAL bands on Rhapsody right now... MANY of them get paid from CD Baby, a "middle man" of sorts, which passes somewhere around 90% directly to the artist(s)...
THAT is a business model... and it's the exact opposite of traditional distribution, which is why the record labels are scared sh*tless and are now extorting money from "thin air" like this.
People are much wiser as to what's "fair" now, and with traditional distribution being overturned, many people are now buying music the way that they should've been all along - by fairly compensating the artists as directly as possible.
I say support your local INDEPENDENT record store (while you can!), and support your local music scene as well. |
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MoeDumb
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|  said by amungus  :I say support your local INDEPENDENT record store What's a "record"?
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Tomek
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My local music scene is terrible and has no match.
I'm yet to hear anything regarding piracy from artists in for example Europe. I guess they get their income from actually performing on stage.
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said by amungus :My rates are higher for Rhapsody... I never even use the 'radio' streams they have. I much prefer to pick out the songs I'd like to hear on my own, thanks very much. Same thing. The RIAA does not differentiate the two. In fact, you're using it as a jukebox, which will have even higher rates.
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