Yes. You are right. Sharing music has a potential, although slim, to
hurt independent "do-it-yourself" artists. Although there are many
artists who have benefited from sharing by having been able to bypass
the monopoly the music industry exercises on distribution.
On Thursday, Apr 21, 2005, at 07:04 US/Central, Seth Austen wrote:
On Apr 21, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Nima wrote:
Although the bulk of the money earned by the artists comes from the
concerts and other merchandizing schemes and not from sales of CDs.
The money from the CD sales mostly goes to the music companies.
Many artists in all genres are producing and releasing CDs
independently. It can cost an independent artist tens of thousands of
dollars (or Euros, etc) to record and master their album. Thus the
artist needs to sell 1000-5000 CDs simply to break even. We're not
talking profit, just recouping costs. If someone copies a CD instead
of buying it, the potential that the big bad "greedy music company"
that is being ripped off is actually an artist with boxes of CDs
collecting dust in the basement.
Seth
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