dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
| reply to MEDIAN2k3
Re: good riddance
Some artists are finally starting to market independently on the Internet. This is what the RIAA is afraid of, it's never been about the money even though that's what they claim to try to hide their true motives. The Internet makes it possible, even easy, for new artists to gain exposure and sell their music, the record labels that enslave artists are no longer needed. The labels are desperately trying to prevent the artists from believing this. Watch for them to push for legislation to somehow prevent artists from doing their own promotion/marketing. The reason many artists haven't left their labels and gone indie is because they are still held to their recording contracts - they still owe their labels several more albums. I suspect in the next few years we'll see more artists leaving their labels as they complete their contracts and moving to their own promotion and distribution. Then they can sell for less and still make more without the dead weight middlemen of the labels taking the lion's share of the profits.
The sad thing is, I don't even use P2P for music anymore, for one simple reason - there's not any new music coming out that's even worth the effort to download it, much less the cost of a CD! I've got somewhere around 1000 CDs that I bought before the RIAA started suing P2P users. I've only bought a handful of CDs since then, all either used for from indie labels not affiliated with the RIAA. I can't think of a single album that I want and don't already have (though there are some that I only have on vinyl and would like to see released on CD) |
