News: file sharing is killing music!

News:
10-11-2007:
Now more than ever are the little guys being squeezed... its time to make a stand.

A new MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/filesharingiskillingmusic
Illegal File Sharing is Killing the Music!

P2P sites are killing the music and making it impossible for new artists to get a record deal. It is not about stealing from the rich - most musicians are poor and put down an enormous amount of hard work and money into what they do. P2P sites rip them off and makes it impossible for them to have a record released.

Many record labels have either totally stopped releasing music or just stopped signing new artists and it is about to get worse, much worse!

A change is needed NOW!

Comments

  1. Have to disagree here. Filesharing is making it possible for even small, new bands to reach a large following. The labels have been ripping off artists and fans for 20 years now and it's time for that to stop.

    They make committee-produced pablum aimed at the lowest common denominator. They promote non-technical bands that all sound alike because they want all power to reside in the hands of the marketing departments and not in the hands of musicians, who they can then strongarm for abusive contracts.

    Money is, and shall henceforth always be, in the concert hall.

    Musicians, labels and everyone else need to recognize that the new medium means a new world. It's time to stop trying to keep distribution in a 1980s mode and get with the new century.

    Is music going to die? No. Is the profit margin ever going to be the same now that everyone and his kid brother can have a shitty Myspace band? No!

    The supergroups of the new century will be the ones who best harness digital media and viral distribution. Time marches on.

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  2. Again I have to disagree. In the case of big labels, your argument holds some water. However, in terms of instrumental guitar, these guys are not multi millionaires, they just trying to make a living.

    How would you feel if someone just took your work and they didn't pay you anything for it? Don't forget that music will have taken years of training and years in development to make.

    OK the concert hall argument... how many big stadium tours do you think instrumental guitarists plays? Do you know how expensive touring is? For these players to make money this way will mean they have to join bigger vocal bands with bigger financial backing.

    I know I would rather pay the money for music than the over inflated price of tour merchandising.

    I'm happy to hear any counter arguments.

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