PressPlay and MusicNet vs. Artists

gilroy writes: "According to a New York Times article (free registration, yadda yadda), despite taking the moral high ground (that they want to see artists compensated, as opposed to all those evil downloaders), the record companies have actually set up pay schedules so as to -- wait for it -- rip off the artists who record the music. Some figure they will earn less than $0.0023 per download -- yes, that's hundredths of a penny. Best quote from the article: 'For many acts, suddenly there appears to be little difference between the illicit file-sharing system and record-label services.' Good to see they're fighting for the artists, n'est-ce pas?"

Comments

Oh yeah, I want to become a rock star

[donglekey]

Because when my one hit wonder song goes platinum and recieves 1,000,000 downloads, I will have made a wopping 2,300 dollars, almost enough to compensate the recording studio for greeting me. I think I will stick with the 'making money from my computer' SPAM I get from my joecool@aol.com email address. I'll bet Scientology wishes they thought of it first.

Where do I send my money?

[south]

Well now we know how much songs are worth, I figure my 11gigs of mp3s work out to around something in the range of $5.33. I can afford that, where do I send my money?

What do the artists have to complain about?

[Waffle Iron]

They just need to shed their glamorous images and spend more carefully. By my math, if they choose cost-effective food such as a McDonald's Value Meal for $2.79, it would only take 1213 dedicated fans downloading their song to pay for lunch.

Even better, the fans have to download broken formats that will be unplayable in a few years, so the artists can have another Big Mac later on, courtesy of the same 1213 fans!

DMCA raid?

[Animats]

Maybe the artists who want their music off can arrange a DMCA raid on Pressplay.