As I know there's a lot of musicians, players, instrument owners, songwriters etc. hanging out on this site so I decided to post this one here also. The following blog writing is a fantastic eye-opener on the ways how the tech business exploits the music industry on the internet. The author is David Lowery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lowery. Sorry, he's not a melodic rock artist but it's still a great read). And here's the foreword to to the blog:

"What follows is based on my notes and slides from my talk at SF Music Tech Summit. I realize that Im about to alienate some of my friends that work on the tech side of the music business. These are good well intentioned people who genuinely want to help musicians succeed in the new digital paradigm. But if we are gonna come up with a system to compensate artists fairly in the new digital age we need an honest discussion of what is going on. The tech side of the music business really needs to look at how their actions and policies negatively impact artists, just as they have pointed out the negative effect record company actions have had on artists.

Too often the debate has been pirates vs the RIAA. This is ridiculous because the artists, the 99 percent of the music business are left out of the debate. Im not advocating going back to the old record label model, to an industry dominated by the big three multi-national labels. This is a bit of hyperbole intended to make us all think about this question: Is the new digital model better for the artist?"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2012 06:44PM by Erkka Korhonen.