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L.C.E.C. on 01 July 2009
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Saki said:
axumblade said:
L.C.E.C. said:

SHIT!

Ah well, brothers... This is a small casualty in the war against the RIAA and MPAA and their greedy corporate establishments!

They may have won the battle, but we can win the war! The musical revolution cannot be stopped!

If you really know how I think artists could get paid by making their music for free, ASK ME.

Most artists make their money from touring. Average for a big artist to make now is about a dollar per CD (then keeping in mind that only a couple of CDs now will hit a million during the first year, and that bands have to split the money, it's almost depressing thinking of it). That or releasing their music independently through mediums like itunes or amazon (third eye blind) to bypass having to pay their record label or even their own website where they take donations for their cds (radiohead).

More sites will fall. Many have fallen and many more will. But for every pirate bay that goes down, another 2 piracy sites will appear. I don't really endorse piracy, but even I know that. x.o

Thats total bullshit and was a stunt from radiohead. They released some low quality shit to the people that paid (and those that didnt) only to release the official album at retail and download in quality sound.

Ahh... I already know about the touring biz, and the whole radiohead stunt... But see, iTunes pays maybe 10 - 20 cents out of the dollar of the song... If someone would make a site where people could simply download music for free, and if it was ad-based (and the record companies didn't suck up money), and if there was enough filing, to where the artists got their 10 - 20 cents, and the website operator got his 15 cents, and they got a cheap domain name (.us .info domain names are 99 89 cents A YEAR), then EVERYONE would win.

Example, put as many ads as you can on a page (I've seen this done to earn bandwith on sites before)... lets say you put about... 100 ads on a page... (It sounds like a lot, but I have seen someone fit 1000 ads on a page)... Let's say for every view on a page, you get a good 5 cents on average (various kinds of ads, PPV, PPC, PPP).

For example, let's say someone wants to download "One" by Metallica.

Main Site (Stream/download) > Download > skip this ad page> Search page > Search Results (shows all albums from band) > And Justice For All... > One > skip this ad page > Go to download > skip this ad page > Downloading...

^ That would make a good 55 cents of income... Put a 1 cent of each song's revenue towards paying for the domain, leaving you with 54 cents of income... Put 15 cents of that into bandwith (more or less if necessary), resulting in 39 cents (give or take)... Split that 50/50 between you and the artist (19.5 cents each), and the artist will be more than happy... Also, even if the artist didn't get paid as much with iTunes, the "sales" would go up because it is free, so more "sales" would mean more profit, and considering the 1:3 ratio the RIAA claims, then "sales" should SKYROCKET by at least 200%!... which is how it usually works in most industries (AKA, the reason we have bargain bins) Also, this would make piracy redundant, so there is no reason why this shouldn't happen...

So you see, with the power of REAL digital distribution and advertising, the music industry does not need the RIAA and it's greedy corporations to keep it alive...