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Post subject: Re: YouTube looks to cash in on music lovers
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:43 pm
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Miami Mike wrote:
You knew it would happen eventually:

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/yo ... 200756553/

As long as a part of those payments go to the artists...

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Post subject: Re: YouTube looks to cash in on music lovers
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:44 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Remember when artists used to get paid to create music?


If anything, creating music costs money, even before you record it. Gear isn't cheap, and that's just the tip of the iceberg there. What the "freebie" entitlement generation fails to realise is that to put out a decent sounding product costs more than you can make hocking some stupid T-shirt with your band logo on it (which also costs money to make) at some gig. Which is what they expect you to do to make any money as a professional musician, it seems. At least the head cheese at places like Spotify are doing well with the millions in profits they make at our expense. That fraction of a penny per play really goes a long way, doesn't it. :roll: Another fallacy that I've heard is that by streaming music for "free" you're bringing down the big, bad, record companies, or "fight the man" like those #$@*&!% brain-dead hippies used to say back in the 60's. No, those bastards will always figure something out to make money. It's just the little guy (the artist) is the one who gets screwed. I find it funny how a lot of these people will pay $5 for a cup of crappy coffee that they'll drink only once, yet they can't spend $0.99 for one song they can listen to as many times as they want.

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Post subject: Re: YouTube looks to cash in on music lovers
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:45 am
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CPL wrote:
I find it funny how a lot of these people will pay $5 for a cup of crappy coffee that they'll drink only once, yet they can't spend $0.99 for one song they can listen to as many times as they want.


+1000!

By the same token, techno-slackers will gleefully pay five bills for a phone that will be obsolete in a year yet balk at spending $1500 for a decent guitar amp that if treated respectfully will last a decade or more.

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