I've had music up on mp3.com http://www.mp3.com/uju almost since their beginning, and have basically used it as a publicity site. (14,000 hits to date) They never owned my music. When I heard they're selling out, I simply downloaded what I had up there (photos, lyrics, mp3's) and called it a day. The only cool thing about it was all those indy artists organized by genre in one place. I found many fans for my tunes through that site, but there are many other options out there. It started off cool, but went to the dogs way before this happened. No biggy.
Every year it is getting cheaper for musicians to produce themselves, this trend shows no sign of letting up.
Plus, there are options to the "5 major label" system for distribution of music on the net right now. The only piece missing is promotion....
p2p is showing us the power of grassroots word of mouth to the max. If one of you geniuses could tie an opensource p2p app with an open source jukebox app that spits out true favorites charts, and pays the content creators 0.05 dollars per download through micropayment schemes, using performance rights organizations as a model (bmi, ascap), you could create the majorist of all music labels. And get your music way cheap without "stealing". A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for a song, and forget corporate control of music ever existed.
maybe the meek will inherit the earth. maybe the stars will realign. maybe the true stars will shine without the hollywood filter
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I've had music up on mp3.com http://www.mp3.com/uju almost since their beginning, and have basically used it as a publicity site. (14,000 hits to date) They never owned my music. When I heard they're selling out, I simply downloaded what I had up there (photos, lyrics, mp3's) and called it a day. The only cool thing about it was all those indy artists organized by genre in one place. I found many fans for my tunes through that site, but there are many other options out there. It started off cool, but went to the dogs way before this happened. No biggy.
Every year it is getting cheaper for musicians to produce themselves, this trend shows no sign of letting up. Plus, there are options to the "5 major label" system for distribution of music on the net right now. The only piece missing is promotion ....
p2p is showing us the power of grassroots word of mouth to the max. If one of you geniuses could tie an opensource p2p app with an open source jukebox app that spits out true favorites charts, and pays the content creators 0.05 dollars per download through micropayment schemes, using performance rights organizations as a model (bmi, ascap), you could create the majorist of all music labels. And get your music way cheap without "stealing". A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for a song, and forget corporate control of music ever existed.
maybe the meek will inherit the earth. maybe the stars will realign. maybe the true stars will shine without the hollywood filter