iTunes Music Store: Facelift for a corrupt industry (?!?)

[elektro80]

True, there is no point in blaiming MP3.com for selling out and Apple for taking a cut. There are bills to be payed, something we ourselves are very aware of. Servers and bandwidth must be bought the same way we ourselves have to buy instruments and whatever.

The cut that artists get from contracts with the major labels is something else. Here we have middlemen who take it all and then own the artist´s ass for all eternity. But I have never been in favour of giving the music away for free.. all parties involved should of course earn a decent living.

[seraph]

[Cyxeris]

I wouldnt be surprised to see a degree of equalization between the commercial and non-commercial music worlds in the next decade, especially when things like iTunes eliminate many of the excuses labels have traditionally had for paying artists so little. They use a "points" system and artists generally get about 8 points if I am not mistaken. That's 8 points (basicly percent) of NET, from which they pay back the labels' loan to them. It's the industry itself that is corrupt and shameful, not the avenues of distribution per se.

Although there is something to be said about that too in most instances. And besides, with options like Amazon Advantage, CDbaby, CDstreet, and not things like Napster and iTunes, it IS theoretically possible for a single independent artist to net virtually 100% of the profits after distribution costs, rather than a dubious 8%. So I give tremendous merit to there now being the possibility itself. It's promising. Quite.

Cyx

[mosc]

[elektro80]

How the music industry is handling the suppliers of the goods.. the very music.. is not that far off how other industries are using children as workers. It is pretty amusing and tragic how some artists still play the game.. it is ok being ripped off forever and ever as long as there is just a small chance of them becomg big popstars and objects of teenage masturbation. Pretty sick.

[Cyxeris]