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Originally Posted by kane
If that is all true, congrats. It is a good way to get a band signed. The internet does allow bands to get more exposure then they otherwise might have.
Here is the one thing I wonder. If the EP made them more money then the gold record (and I do believe it could because record labels give such small royalties) why bother even signing with a major label. Why not just use the internet and sell their stuff via torrents and youtube? If the get big enough they can get a promoter to put together a tour for them then they could make a ton of money.
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because artists believe they will make more money with the record companies.
and it takes people with a very specific skill set to do spike drops like the one i did. Back then link popularity didn't matter, you could get first page ranking with cloaking and on page optimization only now a days that will just get your domain banned.
It harder now, and when you combine all the skills that are necessary it's hard to get them.
Anyone could create the marketplace to sell branding bugs for mp3, videos, that not the key competitive advantage is all the skills that are necessary to successfully compete against all the "piracy".
My primary skill has always been something called black box analysis, i figure out how a system works without seeing the inner workings, thru a complicated combination of testing. I have used it to seo, to clone script and even to develop business plans that turn a companies greatest strength into a weakness.
When i tell you that it is possible to turn the open submission of free content from a strength to a weakness for the tube sites and the torrent sites, i know what i am talking about.