Does anyone else see the piont in paying for music?

Question

Whats the future for the music biz? p2p is out there and i for one will never shell out the hard earned again,

Answer 1

I agree with the others. While things such as limewire and bearshare are nice and convenient and easy and fun. And free.
Would you want someone to appreciate your hard work that you put many hours into without paying you?
Imagine spending hundreds of hours on a project that your poured your heart and soul into and not getting anything in return.
Their payment has to come from somewhere just like yours does.
That is the field of work they have chosen. You have chosen yours obviously outside of music and entertainment but why punish them?

Answer 2

Well here's the deal. These artists that you pride yourself on stealing from need to make a living and creating music is how they're choosing to do it. In the long run, there will be less and less new artists coming out because the music industry won't have the money coming in to promote new talent. We'll be given less options of what to listen to on the radio and fewer videos will be made - that isn't exactly a bad thing though. Instead of 258 Britney Spears wanna be's there will only be 159 and so forth. I've 'borrowed' a few songs off of the internet, but if I really like a group, like Lamb Of God, I'll actually go to the store and buy it. I would've never heard them if it wasn't for the internet, so there's a case where free music is good. It's impossible for the record labels to completely regulate the distribution of free music on the internet - they've tried and came up empty. Good question though - just think, if you were a musician, would you have a problem with giving your music away?

Answer 3

I think the rise in P2Ps and Internet Music Downloads is going to change the nature of the music business.
Right now as it stands, very little of the revenue from the sale of music goes to the artists. Most of it covers costs and makes profit for the huge companies like Warner or Sony, who in turn control the entire music scene by choosing where to put their money - who to promote, how much, and in what way. They basically make the charts, which are now pointless and unrepresentative.
In the long run, P2P downloading BENEFITS the artists, if not the massive companies, because of the sheer number of artists you discover that way, who you then buy the CDs of, go to the concerts for, get merchandise from... Most artist revenue comes from touring and merchandising. The trick is getting the material out there in the first place, and the Internet is invaluable in doing that. I would never have bought most of what I have downloaded for free, so nobody lost out there, and I have bought lots of things I would never have heard of otherwise, and gone to lots of concerts and bought lots of T shirts and CDs.
It's just a question of turning the industry upside down and looking at it in a different and IMHO fairer way.

Answer 4

speaking as an artist; i think the situation that we have now is the problem. it is just plain WRONG that people can write an album and then live of it for the rest of hteir lives. That can only be BAD for business. And this idea of people only releasing songs in one genre and being put in boxes and marketed like cattle.

Plus the idea of people being forced to work round the clock to proportions that become detrimental to their health and without consideration for family or anything else like that: that's bad.

the industry could do with being a lot less top heavy. that way more people would get to be listened to, the quality of music would be more diverse, we'd get to hear the really good, the really really, good and the various levels of bad musicianship which might also be inspiring or funny.

Too many suits control music.

p2p will revolutionise the way we deal with the music industry. i think it's about time the modern millionaire music company died and allowed the independent companies to shine for a bit. it can only improve our creativity.

Take Kenya for example, every other dude plays an instrumenta nd feels free to get up onstage and play: take New Orleans and its impromptu street parties and world class jazz played at street level. isn't that something to be inspired by? Isn't that something to want?

There are very many world class singers that never get heard because the big companies didn't send out someone to their school to hear them at the local play or concert and so we miss them and they live out their formative years in burger king or McD's.

p2p will change all that and the sooner the better.

if someone wants to make money from music they should cut out the middle man (the record company) and hold concerts, gigs etc and if they call themselves artists, they should concentrate on releasing an album every month or every two months. there are people that do it in jazz, i know a few less well known ones who do it in folk and country, and certainly the comedy element of music (say music used as props for radio shows or stand up gigs) that music is alive and kicking and doing well. playground music (grime & the like) that is also doing very well too... and i hope it'll all just improve.

power 2 the peer2peer!

Answer 5

A) you misspelled point

B) The Artists never get much money anyway so the people you are ripping of are the WANKERS on Pop Idol and so on..
But they control the market.
There are only four major companies that control 95% of the record industry.
If P2P brings them down so be it.
As a struggling musician I support P2P anytime cos it enables me to make music.
As such I hate the record Industry because it is run by Arseholes that care about profit and have no sense of art.
Support your Local Bands, go to concerts and buy directly from them.
KILL SIMON COWELL!!!!!

Answer 6

I pay $3 a month for CD quality streaming radio, tailored to my tastes by genre/artist. I will gladly pay it. The artists I listen to get a cut of my $3.

Answer 7

well if I love a band, or really like a song in the charts I will buy the actual cd, but if it's an odd song, band that I like I'll just download.

Answer 8

I stopped paying for music as soon as I got my computer.

Answer 9

I think anybody who can rip off a musician is lower than low.
In my mind it is equal to robbing a bank of all their money, a shop of their products, etc.

Answer 10

it is like ripping them off but the real singers shouldnt care about the money, they shud just want theyre music to be heard isnt that right? so you arent ripping them off, theyre still being heard arent they?