Who doesn't want to pay royalties? As I understand it, the internet broadcasters just want the same deal that, say, satellite radio is getting.
Oh well. I'm sure (or at least I hope) that SOCAN will welcome them welcome them with open arms to Canada, where they can pay a percentage of revenue and not a per-song, per-listener rate.
...not to mention that this is a retroactive rate hike! Who ever even heard of such a thing?
Think doctors and malpractice lawsuits. Texas just put a cap on malpractice lawsuit awards and doctors are flooding there, sure to drive health care costs down.
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"Hi Doctor Nick!"
The vast majority of the time, when there is a specific album I want to buy I have to hunt around and around for it.
This happens for the more obscure stuff, but also for some of the more popular artists. Last week I spent WAY too much time looking for the new Björk album.
It reminds me a bit of when I first started using bittorrent. There were no meta-meta torrent search engines, and no massive trackers. You had to look around at a lot of small (and sometimes unreliable) sites to try to get what you wanted.
Why so difficult? Because I'm not interested in buying any DRM infected music. It's not just an 'ethical' decision - it's a practical one. I've come to be in possession of 3 mp3 players: an iRiver h100, an iPod video and an new iPod nano. Two of those run rockbox, and the nano will the second it is supported. Having to run some software (i.e. iTunes or even the iPod-capable linux apps) to access my music just bugs me.
So, while I would gladly pay for convenience, very few sites want to offer it to me. Honestly, I'd even run iTunes in VMWare and use the iTunes store if I could get the music I want in an uncrippled format. I'd love to support their new DRM-free offerings, but I've never seen a single one! So what am I going to do, burn CDs?
I'm happy to spend money on music, but damn, it's not easy. Most of the time I just give up in the end and just get it from P2P. Does anyone have some good recommendations for non-DRM online music stores?
Note: I'm not going to bother with sketchy Russian sites that are technically legal, but pay no royalties to artists. I'd rather just get it for free in that case.
I am not a US citizen or resident, so I don't have the option of calling my senator or representative. So instead, I have started sending emails to artists whose music I have purchased as a direct result of having heard it on internet radio from the US.
I don't buy music every day, but I do buy some, and almost all of it because I heard it on the internet and I liked it (...and then managed to find it for sale online without DRM, but that's a separate issue).
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of small/independent musicians aren't even aware that these issues are being decided in their name, and they are the one's who would have the most to lose (IMHO).
So yes, the world/internet does not stop at the US border, but I likesomafm.
plus, as the song says: First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin...
scrape together enough to record a first album, or make a deal with a good independent
tour, play lots and lots of shows
apply for grants, especially if you are Canadian
use your album mostly as a promotional tool to get contacts and a larger audience at your many, many shows
sell your album and other merchandise at shows
if/when you become successful enough that managing yourself is too much, sign with an independent label (if you haven't already)who is willing to invest their time and energy to do that for you, sharing a fair cut, and SIGNING A CONTRACT.
record another album
repeat. more tours, more shows
try to get publishing contracts for soundtracks, commercials, etc...which pay the bills without costing you too much integrity.
don't expect limos, diamond-studded chalices full of cristal, private jets or piles of drugs (well maybe the drugs) - but you can certainly make a decent living, doing something you enjoy. A decent cut of 50,000 albums sold is far better than a minuscule microslice of 1,000,000.
Oh wait, that doesn't include much room for the 'major labels' to lend artists wads of cash, waste it on kickbacks and useless marketing, then drop them when they fail to 'explode', while sitting on the master recordings. Hmmm.
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Who doesn't want to pay royalties?
As I understand it, the internet broadcasters just want the same deal that, say, satellite radio is getting.
Oh well. I'm sure (or at least I hope) that SOCAN will welcome them welcome them with open arms to Canada, where they can pay a percentage of revenue and not a per-song, per-listener rate.
...not to mention that this is a retroactive rate hike! Who ever even heard of such a thing?
"Hi everybody!"
"Hi Doctor Nick!"
there is no fork.
...if I could only find what I'm looking for.
The vast majority of the time, when there is a specific album I want to buy I have to hunt around and around for it.
This happens for the more obscure stuff, but also for some of the more popular artists. Last week I spent WAY too much time looking for the new Björk album.
It reminds me a bit of when I first started using bittorrent. There were no meta-meta torrent search engines, and no massive trackers. You had to look around at a lot of small (and sometimes unreliable) sites to try to get what you wanted.
Why so difficult? Because I'm not interested in buying any DRM infected music. It's not just an 'ethical' decision - it's a practical one. I've come to be in possession of 3 mp3 players: an iRiver h100, an iPod video and an new iPod nano. Two of those run rockbox, and the nano will the second it is supported. Having to run some software (i.e. iTunes or even the iPod-capable linux apps) to access my music just bugs me.
So, while I would gladly pay for convenience, very few sites want to offer it to me. Honestly, I'd even run iTunes in VMWare and use the iTunes store if I could get the music I want in an uncrippled format. I'd love to support their new DRM-free offerings, but I've never seen a single one! So what am I going to do, burn CDs?
I'm happy to spend money on music, but damn, it's not easy. Most of the time I just give up in the end and just get it from P2P. Does anyone have some good recommendations for non-DRM online music stores?
Note: I'm not going to bother with sketchy Russian sites that are technically legal, but pay no royalties to artists. I'd rather just get it for free in that case.
The real goal should be to have the RIAA go silent for a day.
I am not a US citizen or resident, so I don't have the option of calling my senator or representative. So instead, I have started sending emails to artists whose music I have purchased as a direct result of having heard it on internet radio from the US.
I don't buy music every day, but I do buy some, and almost all of it because I heard it on the internet and I liked it (...and then managed to find it for sale online without DRM, but that's a separate issue).
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of small/independent musicians aren't even aware that these issues are being decided in their name, and they are the one's who would have the most to lose (IMHO).
So yes, the world/internet does not stop at the US border, but I like somafm.
plus, as the song says: First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin...
Oh wait, that doesn't include much room for the 'major labels' to lend artists wads of cash, waste it on kickbacks and useless marketing, then drop them when they fail to 'explode', while sitting on the master recordings. Hmmm.