Comments on: Please support our dying business model

By: Constance Reader

Constance Reader — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:53:28 +0000

Stu, they’d thank her because because very, very few musicians make earn anything from the royalties off their recordings. Even the big acts make far less than you would think. Standard recording contracts require that the artist only makes money after every red cent the label ever spent to make the recording is reimbursed to the labels out of the royalties. Artists these days make all their money from merchandising and touring, revenue streams that benefit from file sharing because it is incredibly difficult for new or smaller acts to find an audience these days, thanks to pay-for-play on the radio.

By: May C

May C — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:39:31 +0000

I am getting more and more annoyed at the music industry for its insatiable greed.

Although I can understand that it’s not right to steal music, (I prefer being the few dinosaurs out there that buy the physical CDs myself for the artwork and liner notes), but the music and entertainment industry is really getting out of hand.

I am not terribly happy that dentist and medical offices have to pay a fee to play music CDs at their waiting rooms or offices. And now that’s extending to hairdressers. What’s going to happen in the future? I’m sure that the libraries will be in the list some time in the future, since they are providing the CDs to borrowers, so who’s to stop the borrowers from making a copy? This is getting ridiculous.

There’s got to be a better way to promote the music so that more people are exposed to it and will pay for the creative work of the artists without having to resort to lawsuits. It looks like the EFF.org is onto something.

I for one, only still buy the CDs but really enjoy the online radio for the music exposure and for discovering new artists. But that’s me.

By: ID

ID — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:05:11 +0000

so where’s the obligatory webpage with a link to paypal so the p2p community can donate a buck or two? Didn’t it work for that bunny, whose owners were going to raise x$ or eat it?

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:02:58 +0000

Thanks, Stu. Glad you enjoyed it.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:59:06 +0000

Exactly why would these bands thank her for stealing their music, much less pay her?

P.S. Good job in that Globe and Mail writeup of downplaying her piracy, and focusing on completely irrelevant facts like her marital status, her income, and anything else that might make the reader pull out a crying towel. Seriously, is that the kind of thing the Globe and Mail teaches their writers?