quoted 4 lines So who gets hurt who might not anyway with decreasing record sales? No>So who gets hurt who might not anyway with decreasing record sales? No
>category that I can think of. As I said, this isn't exhaustive, so if
>people come up with new categories, I'm all game.
>
Simple. The artists can gain by going directly to their fan base,
right? The pop stars are still making money, because they're all
about the merchandising, right?
So it's the people releasing the information in the first place --
the spin doctors, PR people, scouts, and middle-management that stand
to lose everything. Their jobs are created around the music
"industry" remaining just that -- assembly line, predictable music
that they can create a demand for.
And they're the ones who aren't even in to making or really listening
to music. They're in it because it's a business. They know that
regardless of what changes, the artists and listers are still going
to be there for each other, and that listeners would be happy to pay
artists directly. And that's why they employ such silly scare
tactics as "$ lost to pirates, yar."
derek
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