Reply #144: Wow, being that wrong has to take work!

[DaDeacon]

Lookit, I grew up back when tape trading of live shows was cool moreover I loved the early days of digital music as new artist couple be found with in a few seconds by just browsing what other people with music you like were sharing. Sorry to break it to you but the "Golden Age" of music buying never happened! Smaller acts with less (believed) mass market appeal never had a fair shake, and what the record companies could sell without any effort they did. This is not and issue of artist protection but rather an attempt to create a new income source. To be fair the RIAA could look for $10 per track fees and be punitive but no they want $750 - $150000! Why?
Easy they don't care about file sharing they just want a few gold mines to balance out the books! Really do you think they are going for the full file sharing community? Hell no, just a few cases they think they can win and say how much they collected in illegal fees to say "look what we can do to you".
To the higher point what should be done is to allow the free flow of digital music and spend more money with digital radio & webzins. Offer exclusive tracks @ live shows and via paid fan clubs. I mean Hell take a 13 tack album down to 9 tracks openly available and offer more music and content via fan and artist interaction! This guaranties review to the artist and helps the industry track up and coming music movements.