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Originally Posted by Tuna
Lots to discuss here, but I'll just ask a quick question as I'm confused.
How does giving your music away for free make you more money than accepting a pittance from a recording industry that uses it's influence and contacts to go out and sell your music for you? If artists usually don't make a second or third album because they can't afford it, surely the answer isn't to decimate their primary source of income?
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Because, and I've seen this happen, the recording company don't do all those things that you say. They very rarely promote any band that isn't an instant success, and even then the band will end up in hock to the recording company in the end.
A band's primary source of income is touring and merchandise (not CD Sales) and even this is being stripped away by the major labels in new contracts. When you talk about compensating artists and fairness and stealing, you should understand that the biggest thieves and bastards in this whole process are the media publishing companies. They're the ones who you should be directing your ire towards.
It's better to read Courtney Love's speech she gave back in 2000 (about the music industry)
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/
Artists aren't helped by copyright and the big media publishers, they are only put into servitude.