wired.com— Apple's iTunes store turns five years old Monday. If trends continue, it will be selling more than one-quarter of all music globally within the next five years.
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", I'd probably slap them around with a wet fish until they came to their senses."You better get a good layer of oil on the fish first. That way, it won't hurt as much when they shove it up your ass.-jcr
you clearly don't understand the music business. The ARTIST 90% of the time pays for everything (A fully-mastered, manufactured and distributed CD these days is about $20K). Only signed artists get such promotions, of which the LABEL pays for everything in the hopes that they will sell a certain amount of CDs and SOLD OUT performances. The chunk that artists get is chump change to the chunk that the LABELS get. The Recording studio is merely a middle man and has nothing to do with the Artist other than to make records. iTunes helps the indie artists and spreads popularity, which in turn sells records. You can also bet your ass that signed artists on iTunes aren't seeing any of the money, unless that was negotiated in their contract. Lastly, musicians are musicians by profession, and we do like getting paid something for our WORK. IMO, the artist should get everything and the Recording Industry should go to hell.
Your analogy suffers horribly. I can play my iPod or any CDs I burned from iTunes anywhere I want, I don't have to license a listening location. When you bought that 8-track, you WOULD'VE HAD TO LICENSE it to distribute copies of it legally. What kept people from doing that was b/c it USED TO BE a pain in the ass, but now you can distribute a song to a billion people at the click of a button.
THANK YOU. people keep parroting the FUD of apple's music system, but really, it's quite nice. i have never run into any problem with the music i've bought from the itunes store, and i can share it with as many people as i please.
yes, i love how people justify stealing music by saying "but i'll buy the t-shirt"... how shallow ... it's not about the music at all, only about the consumer product. (and you know that if there was a way to download t-shirts for free, this dude would be doin that to)
nsresponderApr 28, 2008
", I'd probably slap them around with a wet fish until they came to their senses."You better get a good layer of oil on the fish first. That way, it won't hurt as much when they shove it up your ass.-jcr
notafanboy87Apr 28, 2008
you clearly don't understand the music business. The ARTIST 90% of the time pays for everything (A fully-mastered, manufactured and distributed CD these days is about $20K). Only signed artists get such promotions, of which the LABEL pays for everything in the hopes that they will sell a certain amount of CDs and SOLD OUT performances. The chunk that artists get is chump change to the chunk that the LABELS get. The Recording studio is merely a middle man and has nothing to do with the Artist other than to make records. iTunes helps the indie artists and spreads popularity, which in turn sells records. You can also bet your ass that signed artists on iTunes aren't seeing any of the money, unless that was negotiated in their contract. Lastly, musicians are musicians by profession, and we do like getting paid something for our WORK. IMO, the artist should get everything and the Recording Industry should go to hell.
notafanboy87Apr 28, 2008
Your analogy suffers horribly. I can play my iPod or any CDs I burned from iTunes anywhere I want, I don't have to license a listening location. When you bought that 8-track, you WOULD'VE HAD TO LICENSE it to distribute copies of it legally. What kept people from doing that was b/c it USED TO BE a pain in the ass, but now you can distribute a song to a billion people at the click of a button.
jeriqoApr 28, 2008
Huh, i didn't talk about recording studios, and was clearly talking about signed artists.unsigned artists are just wannabe-signed artists, anyway.
nick519Apr 28, 2008
THANK YOU. people keep parroting the FUD of apple's music system, but really, it's quite nice. i have never run into any problem with the music i've bought from the itunes store, and i can share it with as many people as i please.
neuphoriaJun 1, 2008
yes, i love how people justify stealing music by saying "but i'll buy the t-shirt"... how shallow ... it's not about the music at all, only about the consumer product. (and you know that if there was a way to download t-shirts for free, this dude would be doin that to)