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Re: [LUG] My letter to my MP / ISP ban to The Pirate Bay

 

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Julian Hall wrote:
> http://blog.collins.net.pr/2006/05/cd-costs-breakdown.html
>
> OK this is 2006 but I'd bet it hasn't changed that much in the last six
> years.  Classic example of someone breaking the mould was Prince releasing
> his last couple of albums as newspaper inserts.  I wouldn't mind betting he
> got a bigger payout from that than he would have from sales through a record
> company.

It always surprises me how people are shocked by this. I think you can
make similar calculations for, say, a can of tomatoes. Only a small
part of goes to the farmer selling the tomatoes. That's just how
economy -- which includes distribution and retailing as much as it
does production -- works.

I spent a lot of time hanging out with 'small' bands, people running
independent record labels, etc. They weren't evil in any kind of way,
many of them lost money on what they were doing. Yet the records they
sold weren't significantly cheaper.

Martijn.

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