if the money never gets to the artists what is the point? its good to build up an infrastructure but this is more to keep the industry's pockets lined than the artists, so i've seen at least a few who encourage to just torrent their work instead.
there are some who argue that the pricing model is not really incorrect/askew, but i think even they tend to admit that its insignificant income from the perspective of the artist.
(as someone who is not into pop music, i really don't care about building a whole economic/industrial mechanism just to make sure that beyonce & WMG keep getting a disproportionately large piece of the pie compared to independents, that is not really in the spirit of the internet IMHO it is just a web-based continuation of the old system that smaller artists hated...)
there are some who argue that the pricing model is not really incorrect/askew, but i think even they tend to admit that its insignificant income from the perspective of the artist.
(as someone who is not into pop music, i really don't care about building a whole economic/industrial mechanism just to make sure that beyonce & WMG keep getting a disproportionately large piece of the pie compared to independents, that is not really in the spirit of the internet IMHO it is just a web-based continuation of the old system that smaller artists hated...)