Unfortunately, all of it seems to lean on the side of the big corporations who live off the backs of the artists they claim to represent. Don't be fooled for a second. They only care for themselves, and the sooner we manage to take away their power from them, the better for all concerned, including artists.
Their business model doesn't have any place in modern society. It's out-dated, and totally redundant, yet they offer it up to us as being the only way possible.
Radiohead were brave recently when they offered their latest album as a "Pay-What-You-Want" download. The most scared members of the recording industry have been very quick to label the venture as a failure, citing the low average donation as their proof.
This obviously doesn't take into account the high number of downloaders who would never even consider buying a Radiohead album in the shops, but took advantage of the "free" download, just because it was there. It would be very interesting to know how many of those downloaders actually were people who would've bought a Radiohead album in the first place, or just how many of them went on to buy other stuff by the band as a result of being converted by the new album.
-Was it really a failure, or a masterstroke of innovative marketing?
For those of you who remain unconvinced, and still believe all the crap spewed out by the recording industry, I ask that you look at the other side of the argument for once. It's very rarely heard, but put forward quite convincingly in a TOTALLY LEGAL, TOTALLY FREE downloadable movie called "Steal This Film II".
It's available HERE in various formats.
It's a BitTorrent download, which shouldn't take too long.
If you don't know how to download Torrents, take a look at the guide on this site. (Because this is a free, legal download, you won't need to bother with the protection stuff in the guide. Just get BitTorrent and µTorrent installed and you're ready to go.)
Download it, watch it, and distribute it amongst your friends.
