Reply #11: imitating RIAA tactics

[NJCher]

This should earn them the enmity of the music loving public. Just like RIAA has so richly reaped a harvest of hate and contempt, so should MPA.

RIAA's product disappeared. CDs are an outmoded technology and the mp3 is the future of music. But RIAA still wants you to buy a CD so they can make a huge profit.

Gerd Leonard and his co-writer, Kusek, have published a chart in their book The Future of Music . It shows that the artist gets only 7 or 8 per cent of the profit from a CD. The way this is done is to stick the artists with the costs of promotion. By the time the sales are in, there is little or nothing left for the artist.

Here's their site and if you're interested in how the music and copyright issues are shaking out, it's worth checking out on a regular basis:

http://gerdleonhard.typepad.com/




Cher