ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
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join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI
1 edit | No worries...
...thieves will still have choices. If they don't want to pay for an albumn/movie/software, they can go down to their local ChinaMart and rip it off.
Make no mistake, I'm not an advocate of shoplifting but at least the artist/author will still get paid for their hard work.
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swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| It would be nice if music lovers could support their favorite artists. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.
said by ib50MbSoon  :I'm not an advocate of shoplifting but at least the artist/author will still get paid for their hard work.
In most cases that's not true. Musicians on major labels, with a few rare exceptions, get a small royalty only after they're reimbursed the record company for all the costs of recording, promotion, and anything else the company has paid for or claims to have paid. If the artists are lucky enough to sell enough discs to pay off all of that, they start getting something like 15 cents out of a $15 CD sale (after offsets for promotional copies, etc.).
And if the artist wants an accounting he must pay for an accountant approved by the record company to do it.
The record companies never create any music or other art or culture. Their distribution and promotion services used to be valuable, but now can be handled better online. The role of the record companies now is only to suck all the value out of the music business, from customers on one side and artists on the other. They sooner they die off the better. And the collapse of CD sales is making it happen.
Music will go on without the Hollywood companies as soon as artists realize they can do better than selling out. |
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IT Guy
Ow, My Balls
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join:2004-07-29
Las Cruces, NM
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| Makes you wonder what is taking them so long to realize that going independent is better, especially for well established artists. If the lesser-known artists are able to do so and still make a profit without the middle man(and for some, I'm sure it's a good profit) , why haven't the well-known artists following suit?
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| said by IT Guy :Makes you wonder what is taking them so long to realize that going independent is better, especially for well established artists. If the lesser-known artists are able to do so and still make a profit without the middle man(and for some, I'm sure it's a good profit) , why haven't the well-known artists following suit? BTW, independents can't get any ASCAP/RIAA royalties. Since labels get royalties based on charts and selling volumes. Indie artists can never get any royalities that were paid for radio broadcast or record store selling since they don't have enough volume to qualify to get money from the "clearing houses". Also the clearing houses are mandated by the US Govt. So basically, most artists will never see 1 penny from royalties. |
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