[linux-audio-user] Re: OT: Music distribution in the internet age

From: Maluvia <terakuma@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 18:28:10 EET

>Hi everybody,
>after almost two years spent ramblin about music distribution in the
>internet age, copyright issues, file sharing and such, trying to
>convince some people that physical mediums like CDs are dead and that
>artist must find other ways of financial support other than selling
>records

Ah yes - the eternal pursuit of how to actually make a living as a musician
- especially nowadays, with so much music freely downloadable online, and
live music gigs getting supplanted by karaoke and djs.

>I've just stumbled upon the website of a musician I respect and
>follow since many years ago.

Link?

>If you decide to purchase a track you are redirected to a page - a
>typical shopping cart - in which you can choose (!?!?!?) the quantity of
>mp3s you want to buy of the same track.
>
>I'm tempted to try and buy two copies of a track to see if I receive two
>links of the same track or if I'll have to download the track two times,
>one for myself and one for a friend.

LOL, that is really pretty funny!

- Maluvia
Received on Sun Mar 5 20:15:09 2006

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