Monday, October 03, 2005

. . . Copyfight . Music (Download) Money Muddle . . File Under: Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.

. . . Copyfight . Music (Download) Money Muddle . .:

"Also, 'an artist needs to sell in excess of 1.5m units before they can show a profit.' Well, let's see. Who was it put the artists into this forced indentiture where they have to pay up front for production time, tour costs, etc? That would once again be the Cartel. Last time I looked, iTunes wasn't dictating the terms of artists' contracts."

This seems like a fine time to link to Albini's - The Problem With Music

Music on a certain level similar to all the big games,
in that, it is rigged.

Has been.
At least since there's been a "recording industry"
probably a lot longer.

Someone is getting rich off Itunes, but it's not artists.
in fact most of them will not see any more $$ from itunes
than they will from the various p2p services.

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