That would so be my personal good deed for the day if it helps lift one person out of poverty, and helps them understand ecommerce a little bit better.

Frankly, as an author, I am just overjoyed at the response the book has gotten with almost 1000 downloads in the last 19 hours. Great response, global distribution network, chance to change someones life, it was good of my publisher to recommend giving the book away for free to see what happens.

Thanks to mininova too for offering a free CDN and an easy way for an author/artist to upload their stuff.

Why did I do this? I have the book free on my book’s web site that gets 25 people a day, I sell one book a day on average, I have already beaten the odds for a self published book, and I have another book coming out that I want to focus on, this was also the best way I could think of to also get feedback from the users.

Hope that helps anyone who is thinking of doing the same thing. I personally could not be happier with my experience.

Last but not least who wants to see the ticket prizes for a show go up and up and up cuz it’s the only way left for a record/promotion-company to make a bug…
I think just giving your music away for free is not the final solution.
One idea of my mine was, to create a download portal (probably run by the copyright owner, so the musician himself) with a ratio-system like on a private tracker, where you balance the amount of downloading with money. So you can download a record and if you don’t like it you don’t have to pay for it. And when you’ve found one that you really liked you pay a little bit more to support your favourite act. The ratio system should then prevent abusing of this with deleting those with a ration below … let’s say 0.85 or something similar.

Anyway just giving it away for free can’t be good for a final solution because only balance makes things work out and that is no balance, it wouldn’t be fair for the musicians.

greetz CREED0R

and this quote from some other guy:

“if you are not on the file sharing networks then you are a nobody”

…is the most blatantly IRONIC comment i’ve yet to see on torrentfreak.com

this isn’t a panacea solution that can be a applied to the entire music industry. not all music tours well. hiphop for example; most shows are a whole bunch of acts splitting the revenue of a medium to small sized venue. it’s money to eat off, but might not be enough to cover the initial financial investment of producing the music and doing the promotion.

and you’re not paying that much for distribution costs. most of a release’s budget is for marketing and promotion. when you’re dealing with small artists trying to generate buzz and get recognized, yea you can use the internet and promote for free. but once you’re past that point of breaking into the mainstream, you still end up needing to use traditional means of mass media, which are expensive.

and if the riaa dont see will be death!

Jiff
http://www.privacy.de.tc

*great article, some stunning comments, no argument

The Record Labels have been keeping us from hearing great bands for decades, it is time to break free.

Not really sure how you gathered all that from my comment.. unless you just have emos on your mind.

Sorry to inform you, but making fun of emos while at the same time having a myspace.. makes you just as much of a tool.

It has become a standard.. Myspacer = Immature loser.

Yeah so free shit is good, although from what I understand Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” barely touched the success of their other albums, and that’s to be expected. It seems awesome when bands release shit for free, but honestly I don’t think they’re raking in the cash.

What if we made an album with songs submitted by readers of torrent freak. The blog could have a contest and readers could submit their songs. Then other readers and visitors to the blog could vote on the best ones, and then the winners would appear on a torrent freak album to put on bit-torrent. What do you say, Torrent Freak? This would further the cause, and attract readers to torrent freak.

Heck, with a vinyl record you used to get pictures, credits, lyrics, and you could roll a doobie on them. With overpriced CD’s, you got none of the above, and in the last few years, the sound quality is even worse than vinyl. So, the industry loses money because they lied in the first place, and STILL don’t give fans what they want. But since the record companies have fired everyone who gave a damn about making music, only the overpaid ass-kissers and ass-coverers remain, and guess what, they’re all lawyers. It’s no surprise then that they do what lawyers do, which is SUE people, But who to sue? The fans of course! And of course, that makes no sense. But you’re not a lawyer, so why should it.

It’s a painful pleasure watching the record companies die. Those who make the music are beginning to figure it out though, and they will survive. Because making music is a compulsion for the musician, and a need for the fan, and lawyers need not apply.

Just because America has more lawyers than any other country in the world doesn’t mean we need so many. I look forward to the day when 99% of lawyers are running a stall at the local flea market. Then they will be filling a real need.

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4135420

Cheers!
Joe

Although copying isnt stealing.. we wont go into that again.

I WANT TO SPEND MONEY. I WANT to support my favorite artists.. and thats what everyone forgets.. but give me something to spend my money on!

No I dont want your plastic discs.

Yes I want to see them in concert.

No I dont want your DRM and rootkits on my comp.

Yes I want to buy merchandise.

No I dont want to have to watch MTV to discover crap music.

Yes I want to explore music on my own on the internet.

If you dont give me what I want.. I WILL TAKE what I want. No exceptions.

Just like the RIAA would rather see my life ruined.. I rather see the RIAA go bankrupt.. then play along in there monopoly.

I think it would be great to judge a band by their music and not the label they signed on with.

The one problem I see is how do you get air time with radio stations? Are they permitted to play it for free on air? If they are, then good, the music label industry (NOT the music industry) is going down in flames.

thats all folks
and if your going ot shove distribution costs to people you better not charge me jack for the tunes

I am surprised that some one like bittorrent.com hasn’t been sued on these grounds that they aren’t paying me back for the distribution costs.
AS IN: song cost in store = song cost online , yet no truck to deliver , no cdrs to stomp etc….

YOU the artist can setup a site and sell custommade cdrs , and ship as you see fit. DO NOT expect to become a millionaire, technology makes things cheaper and people wiser. THe BIG 4 WANT STUPID PEON DRONES. HA too late. THEY FAIL.