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Originally Posted by no ssl yet  Rob, I don't know what the heck you're laughing at, sometimes people steal cars, and it makes them go out and buy that very same car to support the mfgr.  
Try making flat screen TVs free or better yet sell them in the projects for $100 each and see if sales decline at circuit city?
LOL the only way the sales will increase is if the guy who stole the credit card to buy them and sell them hot keeps going back to re up. LMAO.
Don't you know having a free TV will make you buy one?  |
Here's another bad idea for you to laugh at - 2 liter bottles of Coke for 99 cents and buy one get one free at the grocery store!
Forget file sharing and illegal downloads. In about three weeks the playback medium is about to become the distribution/sales medium. Labels or anyone with a recording, will be able to sell it directly to your phone where it can be in your recording library forever.
The paradim of music distribution has been changed and will continue to change. Even if there aren't problems of illegal file sharing, the methods of making money for a writer or recording artist are going to change. The fact is, there may be substantially more income for the recording artist if they don't sell their music using old models and one of the new models may involve not selling it at all or not selling some of it.
Surely you must understand the concept of a loss leader.
Revenue from the sale of recordings has always been the smallest revenue stream that a recording artist creates. Loosing sales revenue from recordings is insignificant in the big picture.