Are any linkers up-to-date on the extent of music industry rip-off?
Russell Clarke posted to me the attached image. I commented:If I'm interpolating properly, the massive rip-off may have been worst during the CD and cassette eras (even after allowing for production and distribution costs), although still bad now (with much lower production and distribution costs), and a massive switch from product (with long life and unconstrained multiple use) to service (with access dependent on an ongoing subscription or per-use payment, and net-connection-dependency).
Russell replied:Yeah it is a bit hard to see the units vs profits. And nothing in there that shows artist income share - which is horrendous on some streaming services…but so was/is it on physical media also, thus why touring and merch is essential for bands to be profitable!
And yes the ongoing ownership of licence is a bugbear. That being said, we are now using spotify more for just ease of access. Ideally i’d use it to find the music i want and then buy the cd and them store it on my computer and share back to phones from there. But that’s not the easiest path. Brendan still collects the CDs though. But yeah the trend/norm does show, even from people like me who would *like* to be more diligent. (Bandcamp is one of the websites who sells digital perm licenses and gives a larger share back to bands. Apple is horrendous, and the licence is also tied down to the user - unless they’ve changed that).
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