Comments on: Vivendi’s UMG vs MySpace http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10496 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:04:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10496/comment-page-1#comment-130729 Reader's Write Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:48:56 +0000 #comment-130729 Vivendi's Universal had, "let it be known that pirates’ gold must be shared," Do they mean shared with the artists? How much DO they share with the artists anyway? John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls: “Our last record sold maybe 800,000 copies – we didn’t make any money. None. Not one penny from record sales. Imagine if we weren’t able to go out and tour and make money on tour. What would we have done? We would have had a gold record and go out and get jobs.” With all the studies that are done by Polara and evrybody - when is someone going to finance a study on how much all the artists actually end up getting? When you take a look at diagrams like this (which was put out by the canadian Gov't) you gotta wonder how much could possibly be left for the actual creator. Hard copy sales: http://www.music.gc.ca/flash/Enreg_Suppo_Conso_e.asp Online sales: http://www.music.gc.ca/flash/Enreg_Fichi_Conso_e.asp There's got to be a better way. Sorry if I got a bit off topic. Vivendi’s Universal had, “let it be known that pirates’ gold must be shared,”

Do they mean shared with the artists?
How much DO they share with the artists anyway?

John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls:
“Our last record sold maybe 800,000 copies – we didn’t make any money. None. Not one penny from record sales. Imagine if we weren’t able to go out and tour and make money on tour. What would we have done? We would have had a gold record and go out and get jobs.”

With all the studies that are done by Polara and evrybody – when is someone going to finance a study on how much all the artists actually end up getting?

When you take a look at diagrams like this (which was put out by the canadian Gov’t) you gotta wonder how much could possibly be left for the actual creator.

Hard copy sales:
http://www.music.gc.ca/flash/Enreg_Suppo_Conso_e.asp
Online sales:
http://www.music.gc.ca/flash/Enreg_Fichi_Conso_e.asp

There’s got to be a better way.
Sorry if I got a bit off topic.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10496/comment-page-1#comment-130715 Reader's Write Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:27:05 +0000 #comment-130715 Vivendi's Universal had, "let it be known that pirates’ gold must be shared," said The New York Post. And, "We understand now that piracy is a business model," thats a big statement... to say the least Vivendi’s Universal had, “let it be known that pirates’ gold must be shared,” said The New York Post. And, “We understand now that piracy is a business model,”

thats a big statement… to say the least

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