Re: microsound Digest 27 Jan 2003 00:53:11 -0000 Issue 780

["ishq" <ishq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

to many in the chain.....lable/disttrubuter/mailorder-shop.........shop gets
payment first...u get 1-2 years later...........the future will be online
sales...direct to cd collector /buyers who dont want crap cdr but artwork /
or a material object aswell as music.....good music sells
itself...........the problem is all thye
parasites in the chain who take take take and fail to see that where the
product they sell comes from.On 100,000 cd sales it cool.on 2k or less its
not working............

> > If 1-4 above are correct, then the model for taking income for music
must
> > change. What is the next step? What is the evolution? How can artists
> > materially benefit from their work in the future? Rather than resist the
trend,
> > how can we harness the trend for financial gain? Must the relationship
between
> > defeating scarcity (easily duplicated IP) and income be an inverse
> > relationship?

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