While the media reports more and more about the actions record labels take to protect their products, the consumers gets more and more annoyed.
Now also artist speak out and it seems they also don't feel that the record companies are doing good a job. According to an article on Salon, most artists prefer the current music sharing networks above working with record companies:
The record companies' representation that they are legitimate agents for their artists is false," he continued. "The only payments they make are to those who have the means to force them to be accountable; to the rest, a vast majority, they pay nothing. Therefore, allowing them to collect fees in our behalf does not serve the public interest. I personally would prefer to allow my music to be freely shared, to the present situation, in which only the corporations stand to gain. Until this is changed, the record companies and publishers deserve nothing." |
Byrd is hardly the first artist to express his distaste for how record companies do business. But Byrd's letter comes at a time when the music industry is in a crisis. Record sales are down for a variety of reasons, and consumers are in open revolt. While KaZaa and other free file-sharing services continue to grow, the Department of Justice is investigating whether the industry colluded to undermine pay-for-play competitors to its own online services. Meanwhile, artists of all stripes, from Byrd to Sheryl Crow, are challenging the status quo.
The bad thing is probably that most artists that don't care that their music is shared are probably also not the most populair and downloaded ones...
Source: Salon.com
