Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 1/29/2013 9:39 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-industrys-model-for-royalties.html?ref=us 
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> *This is one of the most depressing articles I've read in a long time.**
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> **Does anyone remember when Colonel Tom Parker was revealed to have 
> cut a deal with Elvis Presley **
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*so that he would receive a usurious 50% of ALL money that Elvis made?**
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**It was unprecedented and the rest of the music business, artists and 
the public recoiled heavily from the news (though cynics always pointed **
**out that 50% of $40 million dollars was still vastly better than 0% of 
nothing).**
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**Well folks,   iTunes,  one of the greatest rapists of musical 
artistry, in the world charges 50% of ALL DOWNLOAD SALES.**
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**And they are the good guys compared to Pandora and Spotify, whose 
statistics make iTunes look like positive artistic **
**philanthropists.**

A new paradigm of selling digital content online needs to assert 
itself.   One that is fair to artists and all the energy
and time and money they spend trying to create art for people.

There are rumors of this coming.    I can't wait.

Rick Walker
Fuck iTunes!    Fuck Spotify!     Fuck Pandora!
Fuck the dominant paradigm that says that downloading other people's 
music is okay as long as you get away with it.
Theft if Theft, Folks!
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