--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great article, great protest. > > Having worked on the peripheries of the music and > film industry at one point in my life, I have to > admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the > companies who are screaming about being ripped off > by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their > artists for decades now, ripping off the very people > who create their product every way they can possibly > imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost. > And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known > musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of > product and who got a *bill* from their record > companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the > record companies had found a way to pass all of > *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay > the company for the privilege of having made money > for them.
I just saw a segment on TV about how popular bands are now doing all of their marketing, publishing and distribution by themselves because of the obvious economic benefit. The show featured a band, Wilco, who said that instead of a record company contract that would pay them $1 per CD, by outsourcing these functions and managing them themselves, they were now realizing $6 per CD. That's a big difference. :-)
