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Re: Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft

Greg Rollett — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:59:06 -0000

Artists know they are being screwed but if they want credibility and visibility they need to be where the big dogs are. Unfortunately that means iTunes.

For forward thinking indie musicians, they should realize that they can give their tunes away for free, build website traffic (not to their Myspace page), find sponsors and advertisers and hit the road. That's what we teach at least!

Re: Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft

slugnola — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:33:28 -0000

Yeah now they RIAA has gotten the ISP's Involved. The connection at my job was shut down due to someone using bit torrent on our open network....how are we supposed to monitor what people do with an open wi-fi connection?>??

Re: Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft

Elad — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:37:32 -0000

Fans aren't being shafted. We're voting with our bittorrent clients...
The music industry realizes that and what we're seeing is their death throes, trying to milk whatever's still left of their market.

Re: Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft

Leslie Poston — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:06:09 -0000

I can not believe the music industry is still causing us to have to police them in an age where we should already have made vast inroads on unique and varied electronic music distribution. It stinks. Giving this one a stumble and a Digg and a Mixx - we need to lobby.... SOMEONE... to fight this.

Re: Once More Musicians and Fans Will Get the Shaft

andrew — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:40:49 -0000

It's time to bypass those greedy middlemen;
For musicians that wanna host their own music OpenTape is a good choice:
http://opentape.fm
For users, this is a good iTune-like service, in case Apple decides to shut iTune done:
http://www.remobo.com/blog/...