[kj] OT- Tila Tequila-DIY- ramifications on the music industry

[Jerry Butson]

This is all very well but porn has aways been the easiest thing to sell on
the internet hasn't it?

The established music business is nervous about the whole digital thing, not
just this starlet, but this kind of thing has been going on for ages. The
internet is just a means of distribution that the music companies didn't get
control of on the ground floor.

Apple must be rubbing their collective hands...somehow, if someone records a
song and gets it on iTunes, it's seen as them "doing it for themselves and
playing the industry at its own game". Meanwhile Apple rake in the profits
whilst not actually having done anything.

Furthermore a producer like Li'l Jon doesn't come cheap. There's big money
at play here and, whether or not the music business loses out, big
business is still the beneficiary at the expense of the humble music buyer.

jerry
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