Found this article on business week, makes for an interesting read Andersen got the piracy case against her dropped; now she's going after the RIAA for conspiracy by Heather Green…
Nine inch nails have been releasing a lot of new material lately, they released a new single onm the 22nd, you can get it for free from this url http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin
The financial and legal requirements within the music industry go hand in hand with each other
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W0ooot my second album is out now!!! cdbaby.com/cd/machinima2 This is the first full album release by the Scottish black metal band Hybrid Machinima, formed from their love of metal and…
Ooooh, rancid are gonna (hopefully) release a new album i just ripped this from some site that I subscribe to, and ive just fired up rancid on my winamp Rancid…
I was lead to a fantastic new site from one of the blogs that i read, http://nothingbutgreenlights.net the site is called muxtape you can get it here muxtape.com basically its…
Http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/myspace-partner.html
It seems that myspace are going to start paying the majors for their music on its site (or a spinoff site) through subscriptions (which wont work – the argument being ‘why should I pay for something I can download for free, even if you are telling me its illegal, its still free’)
what might be a better thing to do is to share some of the 20 million (ish) USD PER MONTH that they make from advertising on the bands pages with the bands themselves.
eg, I have a band, and its quite popular on myspace, I manage, for exapmle to get 1000 people to go to my page in a day, myspace make money from this (they make a SHITLOAD from google adsense alone – on average I can get $0.50 per click on a google banner, a click happens about 7 times for every 100 visitors, so in one day myspace could make $35 a day from my page alone, how about myspace giving me $20 of that, since im the reason that the people are going to my page, hell, if I was greedy id DEMAND $30 form that, but I understand myspace is a whore, anyway here is the articl that I found –
MySpace has partnered with three of the four major record labels in an effort to create “a one-stop source for all music, in all its various digital incarnations,” according to The New York Times.
Well, ive had this on my mind for a few weeks now http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options nine inch nails have released a 4 cd set, the first of which you can download for…