This came to me while recalling a debate some time ago about whether shutting down P2P programs would really make an impact on the dropping sales of CDs. Many times, the opposers of P2P programs say that the artist is being stolen from and is losing huge profits. ("They have to eat too, you know.")
The counter argument to this was that artists only get a small fraction of the money garnered from CDs, much like how an author gets only a few cents from selling a book, and that the losses are to be blamed on decreasing ticket sales.
I understand that the artist is not the only one involved in producing a CD. I just want to know how big their slice of the pie is.
2006-07-14
19:50:32
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