darkcom
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join:2002-12-04
Miami, FL
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RIAA's action will backfire
About time something happened to fuel interest in the general public about this matter.
It's my personal opinion suing your own customer base is completely wrong and will definetly have a negative impact - what are they thinking?!
In the show The Screen Savers - "Music Wars", a point was brought up that artists only get 4% of all profit from record sales, if that statement is true, who gets the rest?
On top of that, now they want to sue the general public and their methods are not accurate or legitimate.
I guarantee you if people would not buy CD's for 6 months they would definitely get the message.
Props to Kazaa for their action!
... just trying to add my two cents.
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| said by darkcom  :
About time something happened to fuel interest in the general public about this matter.
It's my personal opinion suing your own customer base is completely wrong and will definetly have a negative impact - what are they thinking?!
In the show The Screen Savers - "Music Wars", a point was brought up that artists only get 4% of all profit from record sales, if that statement is true, who gets the rest?
On top of that, now they want to sue the general public and their methods are not accurate or legitimate.
I guarantee you if people would not buy CD's for 6 months they would definitely get the message.
Props to Kazaa for their action!
... just trying to add my two cents.
Four percent of profit or four percent of gross sales? |
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Andrew J
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artists only get 4% of all profit from record sales, if that statement is true, who gets the rest?
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Meatloaf never got one penny from his record company. Even though "Bat Out Of Hell" was the number one selling album world wide for over a decade. Every year they sent him a stack of paper work claiming they -lost- money so they owed him nothing.
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devrandom
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Who gets the rest eh?
All of the people in the record companies..who else? 
Not like the industry is going to set up a booth outside of your local homeless shelter and start pelting people with stacks of money...
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gruggni
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join:2003-07-28
Corpus Christi, TX
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only 4%
The rest of the money goes to the studios and record companies . Artists make majority of their money from live shows and merchandise. The CD sales pay for the recording studios to make the digital recording, and the rest goes to promotions, marketing, LEGAL FEES. The record company pays for the recording and all the marketing and when a CD is sold, the money goes to pay off the artist's debt to the record company, since they front the cash to make an album. If CD sales do bad, the artist suffers, because they have to pay the record companies back. Now if there was a cheaper way to make digital recordings (it's really cheap to make a digital recording these days) artists can sell CD's straight to the fans (websites) instead of going thru the Record Companies to do it for them.
Why are CD prices so high? Because the recording studios charge so much to produce an album. You have to pay off the artist's managers, album producers, and they get their money before the artists do. The artists are just performers. If artists are going to make money then they need to either make their own record company or build their own recording studio. Then there's packaging, distribution and marketing, still gotta pay for that. Need it copyrighted, hire a copyright lawyer and get the music copyrighted. When people share music, the artist's aren't the only people losing money. Of course bands can still perform live and make money back. If you really want to help artists out, buy a ticket to their shows. |
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I agree, I think there should be a nation wide consumer strike on cd sales. It's the consumers that control the market, and those consumers 13-23 control nearly 100% of that market. Basically if we can largely unite, we can control the music industry. Screw the RIAA and the rich mongrols that "think" they're in control. |
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