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Joeri Vankeirsbilck wrote:
> Yoonchi wrote:
> 
> >So now record companies are trying to cheat on the artists even 
more? 
> >It looks like robbing to me.
> >
> Why?

You should read article I refered to. To summarize it: the majors 
want to decide for the artists what's best for them by distributing 
their work on the net, and paying them a ridiculous fee. In the 
article there is mentioned something about the fees: one of the 
companies, MusicNet or PressPlay, I can;t remember which one, would 
offer the consumer a package of $19.95 for 75 downloads. And the 
artist would get $0.0023 per download. Do the math: $0.15 per 
download and ($0.0023/$0.15) * 100% = 23/15 % = 1.5% for the artist.
Now it is not clear if you should treat a download as a product you 
have licenced to the record company to put on the net, or as a 
hardcopy. In case of the licencing, the licence fee could go up to 
50% of the collected fees by the companies. That's a 45% difference.

> >I'll distribute my own music, thank you.
> >
> A viable alternative. It remains to be seen whether it'll be 
succesful 
> that way. It also remains to be seen whether you can live from it 
then. 
> It also remains to be seen whether more people will be able to 
listen to 
> your music then.

That may be true. But in this case we both, the record companies and 
I, are starting on a market that no one knows the rules of yet, :-). 
Equal opportunities. And it's not about listening, in this case, but 
more about marketing my music, :-). Up until now I find the marketing 
aproach on the net very poor. Besides those stupid banners and popup 
windows, no one has come up with a decent alternative. Those annoying 
newsletter don't work with me either. What is needed to be done is 
make people curious. Like what RealNetworks does with movies in their 
RealAudio app.
 
> 
> PS: I'm not trying to offend anyone. I just hope I can get 
interesting 
> replies from you. ;-)

Interesting material for your thesis, hey? ;-).
Yoonchi.