 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
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Re: He has a Good point. said by Scatcatpdx:I am glad I can read the article and see the RIAA's entitlement minded bias. The problem is unless you are a headliner band like U2 that can pull in a crowd at a concert venue, a career in music is next impossible. Thanks to the RIAA, the amount bands get from an album is now worthless, which means little to zero income that can be used while the band creates more music. Thanks to downloading of music on the Internet, bands that don't have a chance under the current system can gain exposure and pick up fans, meaning one day they will be able to issue their own albums, and make a fair amount of the proceeds, as well as get more gigs and eventually concerts, in which they pretty much keep all the money. There, I fixed it for you.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | As someone who's worked in the music industry for decades, I applaud your post in ways that are FAR beyond a simple thumbs up!! Excellent observations! |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | but a decade ago did you see the internet as a new business venture for selling your product like pretty much every other major business in the world or did you see it as a terrible enemy that must be stamped out?
what hurt the industry bad was not pouncing the net full force on the first months they discovered the scale of downloading.
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DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | Quite a few of us on the creative / production side both anticipated and loved the possibilities promised by such an open and accessible communications medium, especially my indie clients. It was the suits in the Ivory Tower that reacted with such paranoia, much the same as they are now. *sigh* |
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do nor take my argument and turn them into straw men you fixed nothing. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Ok, you were just plain wrong then. Thanks for clearing that up. |
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