…enhance the opportunities for musicians. At least thats what we thought when it first reared it’s head.

An opportunity for a much larger network. Being able to have your music reach a lot more people.

But has it worked out for you?

It has for me. But it has it’s negatives.

I’ve been weighing it all up. Now, I’m just talking about yourself as a musician here, having your music heard by other, potential fans.

I have a real problem at the moment. My bass lessons are doing well, but I’ve only ever sold two albums, online! But the interesting thing is that i’ve reached hundreds of thousands of people with this music, and all in all, they all like it. The comments on youtube prove that.

But here’s the kick. There are loads and loads of comments within those songs where people metion they love this song, and they have it on their I-pod. I’m thinking, ‘how? I haven’t sold one copy of the song!’ There are loads of these comments…

So I pulled one guy up about it. I wanted to know. I told him I wouldn’t be angry, I just needed to know what was going on, so I could try and stop it a bit, and try and get people to buy songs to support us as independent artists.

Eventually, he came clean. He’s used a bit of software to rip the audio from songs. I know about software like this, and it’s literally just clicking a button, and its there. One click. He said although, like him, people love the songs, i’d be lucky if anyone actually purchased any.

An independent artist with no money?! Have people got no values anymore? Huge artists were kicking off when Napster was allowing people to download their music for free. It all went to court etc, but what chance does the little guy have? People like my music enough to steal it. Doesn’t that seem really odd to you?

It pretty much puts me in a position of stalemate. There are a few opportunities I have, but none I’m really happy with. One, I’ll have to use with the Towers. That being, using snippets of music, rather than whole songs…

/rant over.

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