Comments on: MySpace faces royalty challenge http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6996/myspace_faces_royalty_challenge/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David QUOOSP http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6996/myspace_faces_royalty_challenge/#comment-216611 David QUOOSP Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:48:35 +0000 #comment-216611 Over 3 years later and MySpace still don't pay royalties. And it's not as simple as the idiotic comments above make out. MySpace may not be "forcing anyone to sign up", but due to its popularity it could be seen as foolish for an artist NOT to have a MySpace profile! Most artists actually think MySpace is shit but a "necessary evil". Unsigned artists make very little, if any, money anyway - you can hardly call them "greedy"... quite the opposite of MySpace; what they spend on artists they more than make back via advertising - helped by the artists who attract visitors to the site. So if MySpace are making money from the hard work of unsigned artists, surely the artists deserve a little recognition for this? Buying and learning instruments, practicing, recording... these all cost a LOT of money! Why should MySpace be the only one to reap the rewards of this very costly investment? MySpace Music has just re-launched with the slogan "MySpace. Music is free" - given their stance on royalties, that slogan is a kick in the teeth. Over 3 years later and MySpace still don’t pay royalties.

And it’s not as simple as the idiotic comments above make out.

MySpace may not be “forcing anyone to sign up”, but due to its popularity it could be seen as foolish for an artist NOT to have a MySpace profile! Most artists actually think MySpace is shit but a “necessary evil”.

Unsigned artists make very little, if any, money anyway – you can hardly call them “greedy”… quite the opposite of MySpace; what they spend on artists they more than make back via advertising – helped by the artists who attract visitors to the site.

So if MySpace are making money from the hard work of unsigned artists, surely the artists deserve a little recognition for this?

Buying and learning instruments, practicing, recording… these all cost a LOT of money! Why should MySpace be the only one to reap the rewards of this very costly investment?

MySpace Music has just re-launched with the slogan “MySpace. Music is free” – given their stance on royalties, that slogan is a kick in the teeth.

]]> By: axlman http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6996/myspace_faces_royalty_challenge/#comment-185269 axlman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-185269 Pay people? For what? Artist that decide to post themselves on Myspace? Whatever! It's not like MySpace is forcing anyone to sign up. Pay people? For what? Artist that decide to post themselves on Myspace? Whatever! It’s not like MySpace is forcing anyone to sign up.

]]> By: Signa http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6996/myspace_faces_royalty_challenge/#comment-185270 Signa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-185270 i think they meant to say "i think i want more money!" i think they meant to say “i think i want more money!”

]]> By: Andrew110 http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6996/myspace_faces_royalty_challenge/#comment-185271 Andrew110 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-185271 Do they think it's a privilege for myspace to be hosting them? If it wasn't for myspace they probably wouldn't hace a website where people actually went to it. It's just another example of how greedy the artists/industry is. Do they think it’s a privilege for myspace to be hosting them? If it wasn’t for myspace they probably wouldn’t hace a website where people actually went to it. It’s just another example of how greedy the artists/industry is.

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