What are the benefits of online music?

[Jeramey]

What are the benefits of being able to download music, minus the thought of piracy? Like what can society benefit from music being readily available online?

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Jeramey
What are the benefits of being able to download music, minus the thought of piracy? Like what can society benefit from music being readily available online?


Well, it's a step in the direction of "on demand" type entertainment. I had an idea a few years back....for normal TV stations doing on demand type programming...but it'll be a flop till they figure out some way to protect shit.....if that wasn't an issue I would have copyrighted the system....(if I took the time to design it all, yada yada yada).

Another thing it does is get unknown band's out there....since the RIAA likes to control what we hear. Plus they like the idea that they can latch on to some band an suck them dry without any trouble since that's the bands only way of making it in the music bizz, now people can just use a cheap ass E- Machine to record a demo an share it with the world on a cheap cable connection.


An being able to preview a CD without any shitty censoring or having to wait to hear it on the radio is a plus.....

An you can hear music from other places without having to blow 40 bucks per import CD. Which is great if you like one part of another culture an wish to check out other parts, you can without breaking the bank on something you may dislike. Guess that goes hand in hand with the preview thing.


I'm sure theres much more but I'm to out of it to keep talking LOL

Hope others build this thread up....good topic.



Peace all, Later

[celimage]

It used to be, to get your music heard you had to get "signed". That involved courting
people in the industry and selling yourself to them. They then had to find a pigeonhole for you and your fate was in other peoples hands...totally.
Online music has given artists in remote and "Non-industry" areas a way to get heard by the world.
I have not played in a bar or club or sent a record company a demo CD, yet I have been heard by thousands and it has enabled me to be on the radio and played commercially. My MP3s have also been traded on P2P, which has created a steady stream of visitors to my websites. When people share my music they place it in their files with many prestigious artists, in most record stores local artists are given some space in a rack in the back and are non existant in the most of the major retail chain stores.

It will take time for the industry to change focus from CD sales to media impact. Personally I do not have a problem with people getting my music for free. I would have a major problem with people putting their name on it and profiting off it and stealing my thunder, that is copyright infringement as I see it.

[wonderboy2005]

what kind of music do u make?