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Originally Posted by kane
Still, it doesn't change a thing. You rail against the record labels and talk about how fantastic torrent traffic is and how you can promote yourself and create a great career for yourself and keep 90% of the profits and make way more money than you could if you were on a record label, yet for some reason all of these internet people seem to end up at major labels. Life must not be as bad as you seem to think it is or these people realized that they can't get to where they want to be via the internet alone and went to where the real money is. How good or bad their contract turns out to be is all in their hands. If they are dumb enough to sign a bad contract why should I feel sorry for them?
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couple of points
1. you keep ignoring all the examples i give you independents who made it without the label (JC for example)
2. many established artist who took it up the ass for years, are now trying to use the technology to break away but when every i mention them you argue they "owe" the record company for their success (as if taking it up the ass with the 90/10 split is not enough)
when eagles and other artist file copyright revokation notices to put their songs in the public domain so they can compete against the record companies selling their own music
you bitch about
when artist like radio head gift their music to their fans authorizing their downloading activities (hell their is an entire organization of some 250 major artist including the bare naked ladies who have made similar offers)
you bitch about.
the record companies signed the contracts that way, they knew the artist had a right put their music into the public domain by revoking the copyright, why should we feel sorry for them.
The new technology creates opportunities for the artist (who would have believed that an artist could make more money voiding their copyright and competing with everyone to sell their music) and the record companies are trying to change the LAWS and there for the conditions of the contract they agreed too. Technology usurped their power, and granted the artist a new opportunity and the record companies want to put the yoke back on the artist.
the arguement cuts both ways why should i feel sorry for them since the market has changed.
record companies can hold a band hostage to a deal for years, so while you claim that most artist keeping quiet are doing so because they don't want to piss off their fans (which should be considered a basic principle of marketing) i think they are keeping quiet because they are afraid of being stuck in development hell (think about if you were afraid of pissing of your fans, and you could make a pro filesharing statement get tons of good press and good will why would you be stupid enough to not make the statement)
The only established artist who make such statements have either sweetheart (my own studio does the production ) deals or are truely independent now.