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Technology has made it possible for us to record and master songs in our own houses, thereby bringing bands out of the woodwork. But file sharing is not one of those technologies. File sharing makes it easier for us to share OUR WORK with our friends, it also makes it easier for us to share YOUR WORK with our friends. It makes it impossible to charge for music because we are all giving it to each other.

The reason there are so many more bands in sight today is not because of file sharing but because of cubase, pro-tools, and the fact that we all have computers. This is bringing every creative person to create and distribute (in some sense of the word) music. Many bands does not hurt the music business, it helps it. We are not complaining about the technologies that make it easier to record a song with high quality.

The problem is not with file sharing either. The problem is with capitalsim. Capitalism pitts us all against one another in a competitive way. We are not competitors, we are fellow artists. If a 5 inch piece of plastic worth about 3 cents costs me $20 at the store but nothing online, how do you talk me into not becoming a law breaker? Sue me?

The problem is the greed of the record companies. Now that we can produce recordings cheaply and fairly quickly, why hasn’t the price of a CD dropped? They can’t afford to do that because they are spending so much on lawyers to sue their own customers.

Lets make a distinction here between file sharing and digital recording. File sharing is hurting the big companies (and artists) but helping the consumer. Completely separate from this is recording technology which is helping the artist and does not affect the consumer except for there is more choices out there. But lets be realistic and admit that making good music IS hard and not many of those bands are worth paying for.

The market will make the final decision because we live under a capitalist system, but does that make it fair? No. Is there anything you can do about it? Maybe. Maybe not. I plan on spending my time not worrying so much about where my music ends up but making sure it is the best it can be.

I am a professional musician. In today’s world that means that i am a financial burden to some one else, undernourished and under appreciated. Most people don’t care about that predicament, it isn’t their problem. I work as hard as Elvis worked.

I venture to say that most good music takes much more work and cost than this to put together. Definitely in my experience that is the case.

“If I get something else out of it, (enter any monetary value), that would be a blessing, nothing more, and it would especially not be deserved.”

Maybe not, if the above quote is the level of thought and attention that goes into it. But you can’t speak for every other artist on this.

Thanks as always for your insight.

I agree with the premise of the article above. I have a thought I would like to share.

The ancient Egyptians built some of the greatest structures in human history and had a rich and prosperous culture. Eventually, their pyramid casings were stripped and their language and customs were lost in the sands of time, (until re-discovered and deciphered with the Rosetta stone).

How did such a huge civilization have a mighty presence only to fall into darkness?

The only thought that comes to mind is that knowledge was only part of a select few circles. Most were of a different class. Great knowledge like that can only continue when all people help carry its burden and reap its rewards.

Only an open society can flourish. We must embrace the community of our situation, or we will only continue the disintegration.
At least, that’s my observations.

* to b-morris – oversaturation is not the true roadblock, remember, the cream of the crop always rises to the top. I would suggest focusing that energy to be the very best you can be. It seems to me to be the only efficient method of dealing the oversaturation issue. And that’s the one thing each of us definitely has control over, so we couldn’t have asked for a better hand.

Also I think worth noting that, there are many varying degrees of success and all the competition out there has their own definition. Which means only a portion of the whole will actually be your direct competition.

P.p.s worth noting, One of the beauties of music, to me, is that our version of competition is not like, example, football. On the field you want to rip the oppositions head off. With frequencies, the collective output can push and inspire everyone to make their own next steps even greater.

The other popular theme that keeps popping up in the comments is making money, getting compensated for the use of the music.

Obviously, nowadays more than ever, we have all the tools at our disposal. Back in the day to cut an album, you spent a shit ton of money to put the package together. Studio costs (which were very expensive since you had no other choice in those days), manufacturing costs, distribution costs, everybody needing their cut, ect ect ect. That’s where the idea of compensation really made sense because it was a hell of a lot of work to make it all happen.

>>>Fast forward to the Digital Age, I can produce in a song in my basement in a matter of hours, publish it on the internet minutes after I render the final master, and send links to my friends seconds later. Even if I do technically deserve some kind of compensation from the time and resources it took to do that, then at least personally, even if my friends dig it, then that’s enough right there. If I get something else out of it, (enter any monetary value), that would be a blessing, nothing more, and it would especially not be deserved.

And If you haven’t mastered the, putting shit together like it aint no thang, scenario yet then I would suggest that you start, cause the competition did. Welcome to music business 2.0

Some people & artists such as yourself, may ‘agree’ with this whole ‘go with the flow/just take it as a compliment’ attitude – where as other artists such as us, do NOT want to be ‘ripped off’, exploited, or find one of our songs in some shampoo commercial one day without even knowing it. This is just plain LUDICROUS if you ask me.

I don’t see how ‘turning a blind-eye’ to all of this is the answer or solution. Our collective voices may not be heard or seen ‘today’ – but may in fact, pay-off down the road. I also agree with ‘Northside’, that some of us would still like to be able to keep our audiences ’smaller’ for now, put our songs on smaller amounts of websites in general, and especially having a ‘right’ to have our names COMPLETELY removed from all of these ’scam sites’ out there. This is not only ‘disingenuousness’, but it’s complete ‘theft’ & ‘vandalistic’ to what we do and have worked very hard for. WE as musicians & artists, should have FULL choice and control over what we do – NOT the other way around.

It takes mass ‘voices’ and ‘actions’ Mr. Schiller in order to take back what is ours and & reclaim our authority of ‘control’ and ‘integrity’. You should know this.

Sitting back, doing nothing, and allowing just ‘whoever’ to rape, pillage, & plunder as they wish?

I seriously can’t even begin to believe that’s your ‘answer’ to all of this.

And at the same time, you also self-proclaim ‘how great the music industry of today is’ and how ‘there’s no greater time to be an artist or musician than today’….

- are you serious?

I think Ms. Hansen above couldn’t have said it better when she stated:, “For the working class professional musician in the United States, I cannot think of a worse scenario than this.”

Understand, I’m NOT knocking you as a person Mr. Schiller, or your intelligence – but if you’re going to continue successfully publishing articles for the masses like you do – PLEASE, use that voice and intelligence to help us distribute a different message or response to all of this foolishness, and also help us to find a better ‘answer’ or ’solution’ to these problems.

- b. morris