Comments on: The value of airplay http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gr8oldies http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766/comment-page-1#comment-969617 Gr8oldies Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:56:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766#comment-969617 err make that 26 as an Engineer err make that 26 as an Engineer

]]> By: Gr8oldies http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766/comment-page-1#comment-969616 Gr8oldies Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:54:58 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766#comment-969616 As a 36 year radio vet(10 years as a Disk Jockey and 29 as a Engineer) I can tell you radio does promote the artist sure the net has changed a lot of that but for the most part thats where the most people hear the music.I'm sure there is a lot here that will disagree with me but it's a fact.But you know what? let em go ahead and push for this it may end up another nail in the RIAA's casket.The radio group that I work for is considering dropping all RIAA music(much to my delight) and are in talks with several other labels and distr of music, the RIAA is not the only one.The average person on the street just hears music when they turn their radio's on they don't know if it's RIAA music or not. As a 36 year radio vet(10 years as a Disk Jockey and 29 as a Engineer) I can tell you radio does promote the artist sure the net has changed a lot of that but for the most part thats where the most people hear the music.I’m sure there is a lot here that will disagree with me but it’s a fact.But you know what? let em go ahead and push for this it may end up another nail in the RIAA’s casket.The radio group that I work for is considering dropping all RIAA music(much to my delight) and are in talks with several other labels and distr of music, the RIAA is not the only one.The average person on the street just hears music when they turn their radio’s on they don’t know if it’s RIAA music or not.

]]> By: Thinker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766/comment-page-1#comment-969581 Thinker Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:24:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18766#comment-969581 "deserve to be compensated, and pointed out how difficult it is to make a living in music, particularly below the star level," That is the theory of the government help (some call them handouts) to the poor. But artists who are poor because they are not successful do not deserve help like the poor. Certainly no more than a bartender or a teacher. These, when not successful as artists or whatever it is that they do, usually change to another line of work, something they would not do if they got all the compensation they "deserve". Sure, there are many artists that do not earn what they deserve and many get far more than they deserve. These results are due to the frequently one sided agreements the artists made with whoever pays them and if those agreements are complied with. Usually they are not complied with on the part of the payee, something made common by the very expensive and very slow legal system that favors corporations (the payees) and their money and lawyers. But that is the system that the majority idiot voters continue to support. “deserve to be compensated, and pointed out how difficult it is to make a living in music, particularly below the star level,”

That is the theory of the government help (some call them handouts) to the poor.

But artists who are poor because they are not successful do not deserve help like the poor. Certainly no more than a bartender or a teacher. These, when not successful as artists or whatever it is that they do, usually change to another line of work, something they would not do if they got all the compensation they “deserve”.

Sure, there are many artists that do not earn what they deserve and many get far more than they deserve. These results are due to the frequently one sided agreements the artists made with whoever pays them and if those agreements are complied with. Usually they are not complied with on the part of the payee, something made common by the very expensive and very slow legal system that favors corporations (the payees) and their money and lawyers. But that is the system that the majority idiot voters continue to support.

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