Comments on: All together now: http://www.speedkill.org/2004/03/29/579/ Radioactive Toy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: heliologue http://www.speedkill.org/2004/03/29/579/#comment-341 heliologue Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/index.php/archives/2004/03/579/#comment-341 Ooooh, pretty! ... Fuck the RIAA. Ooooh, pretty!

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Fuck the RIAA.

]]> By: Fate http://www.speedkill.org/2004/03/29/579/#comment-342 Fate Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/index.php/archives/2004/03/579/#comment-342 I can't really comment on this since the music I download has such small distribution that if I didn't get it on MP3 I couldn't get it anywhere. But I hate when software companies make similar claims. If I pirate Photoshop that costs $800, they don't lose $800. I wouldn't have spent $800 on Photoshop. But by me learning to use Photoshop they gain another Photoshop user and then when I get a job they will sell a copy of Photoshop to the company. #! shebang, they just made $800 they wouldn't have otherwise had. They way electonic music artists make money is primarily through licensing. I make a song, I sell next to 0 copies, but some DJ picks up an MP3 of my song, likes it, picks up a copy of it on vinyl.. and spins it in his live sets (don't get any money there either).. then he records that set and has to license the song to release the mix CD and I get lots of money. Someone hears that mix CD and then uses the track in a car commercial and I'm swimming in money. The DJ that records the CD though does make some money off of it, but it is to his advantage if it is pirated because then more people here him and are willing to spend $25 to see him play other peoples music (sometimes poorly even if he is a superstar DJ). Your average non-"superstar" DJ generally plays for free or traveling expenses, or for so little that it ends up being about minimum wage.. which hardly pays for all of the vinyl a DJ buys. I can’t really comment on this since the music I download has such small distribution that if I didn’t get it on MP3 I couldn’t get it anywhere. But I hate when software companies make similar claims. If I pirate Photoshop that costs $800, they don’t lose $800. I wouldn’t have spent $800 on Photoshop. But by me learning to use Photoshop they gain another Photoshop user and then when I get a job they will sell a copy of Photoshop to the company. #! shebang, they just made $800 they wouldn’t have otherwise had.

They way electonic music artists make money is primarily through licensing. I make a song, I sell next to 0 copies, but some DJ picks up an MP3 of my song, likes it, picks up a copy of it on vinyl.. and spins it in his live sets (don’t get any money there either).. then he records that set and has to license the song to release the mix CD and I get lots of money. Someone hears that mix CD and then uses the track in a car commercial and I’m swimming in money. The DJ that records the CD though does make some money off of it, but it is to his advantage if it is pirated because then more people here him and are willing to spend $25 to see him play other peoples music (sometimes poorly even if he is a superstar DJ). Your average non-”superstar” DJ generally plays for free or traveling expenses, or for so little that it ends up being about minimum wage.. which hardly pays for all of the vinyl a DJ buys.

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