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[PhatPhreddy]

http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

Even artists want downloadable music... The only people that dont are the mega groups (cry me a river baby) and the recording industry and its lobbyists...

This does open a nice issue... Whilst I am pretty against indescrinatly downloading music (and I buy a lot of music) it does bring awareness to the fact that A) New artists B) fringe artists C) almost anyone apart from the RIAA and established artists that already make a fortune see this as a benefit...

So who as a society do we believe deserves the revenue and exposure... New aspiring / unusual / alternative / artists who are starting out or the industry itself and the mega groups it creates to pull revenue...

This is not a black and white issue... Yes Metalica do lose out some revenue but then again are they struggling to buy guitar strings ?? Small bands that benefit from exposure are...

Who do we want as a society to benefit most from being an artist... Those that already benefit enoumously should benefit more at the expense of those that are stuggling getting less...

Whilst pointing to industry misnomers I should also link this page by another member of the industry http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

[Mirko]

Metallica:

There is a service in the internet that let's the user download radio-ripps from songs. They have agreements with many artist.
Metallica is one the easiest to handle, they say on this site. So I think Metallica only wanted to prohibit the "uncontrolled" distribution, but they are definitly on "our" side.

Just my two cents.

Mirko

[fesere]

Whats that site that you can send money directly to artists...  like they hold the money for 6 months or something and make the profit off interest and then send a check straight to the artist?


Anyways I wouldn't mind a Napster-like program that you had to register with using a cc.. and then while dling a cd be able to click and send a few bucks to the artist.  I'd click sometimes...  tho I don't think overall it'd work very well.

[Artzie]

It seems to me that today's "artists" steel without thinking anyhow, so why bother! I mean, new music is rare!

[PhatPhreddy]

I guess the expresso was kicking in when I was thinking about this as I went off on one after reading the article..

My more detailed ramblings can be found here http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163207

[Cotton-Eyed Loo]

Excellent Link - thanks!

[Deerhunter]

Have you read this article. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2121102,00.html