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Subject: Re: Penalising downloaders Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:42:33 +0000

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:12:19 -0000, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

>> So even with no royalties being paid by consumers whatsoever,
>> musicians who can record sufficient songs to keep just 3 of them
>> popular at any time will be earning an extremely good livlihood from
>> radio stations alone.

>It's not a question of just recording sufficient songs in a sort of scatter
>gun approach, ie the more they record the more will get played. There's a
>question of quality too.

As there is with the present model. I don't see any difference.

>And even a major recording artist would be overjoyed to have 3 tracks
>popular at any one time, let alone every week of a long career.

Come off it! The major groups are getting far more than 3 of their
tracks played regularly on the media at any given time.

>Your business model is fatally flawed.

Perhaps your mind is in that condition, but it is perfectly possible
to make a good living from the proceeds of radio & TV alone. As proof
absolute of that, I have known some extremely wealthy musicians who
you will never have heard of - but you will have heard their work.
They make their living selling jingles and backing to adverts. They
do not sell a single CD.

--
Cynic