The industry has totally lost touch with the artistic creators and the consumers. Artists have been getting screwed for years. But with the spread of blogs, e-mail, and searches music fans begin to spread the word themselves about good content. When peer-to-peer networks came about we began to distribute files ourselves; why waste the time of burning a cd, packing shipping, storing, selling, buying, unwrapping, and playing a cd when at a fraction of the cost you can download it directly. With new services like Strayform artists and fans can now fund, distribute, and advertise without need of corporate middlemen.
I think we are going to get tired of putting up with ads, DRM, lawsuits and start cutting out the corporate middlemen totally.
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The industry has totally lost touch with the artistic creators and the consumers. Artists have been getting screwed for years. But with the spread of blogs, e-mail, and searches music fans begin to spread the word themselves about good content. When peer-to-peer networks came about we began to distribute files ourselves; why waste the time of burning a cd, packing shipping, storing, selling, buying, unwrapping, and playing a cd when at a fraction of the cost you can download it directly. With new services like Strayform artists and fans can now fund, distribute, and advertise without need of corporate middlemen. I think we are going to get tired of putting up with ads, DRM, lawsuits and start cutting out the corporate middlemen totally.