See thing of it is, they're not not making money, they're raking it in hand over fist, they're just not making as much as they'd like and see filesharing as a convient scapegoat. What they need to have done is have their fat asses sat down and explained to that the more sh1t they crank out the fewer buyer they're going to have simply because they aren't providing enough value for the obscene amount of money a new CD costs these days.
How much does it cost in physical terms per disk(leave out the artist fee and the executive's percentage)? What is the actual cost to the publisher to crank out a disc? $0.35, maybe, out of an average album cost of $20.00 and the disc isn't even full usually. With my burner at home I can pack 19-20 average length tracks onto a music disc(all of the legally obtained, of course). But the average commercial discs have at most 12-13 tracks on them. You know, my argument isn't with the artists, I'd give $10.00 for a CD, maybe even $12.00 and give it gladly if the artist was getting the majority of it. But the artists, the people whose talent and will fuel the music industry and who the masses pay the big bucks to hear, recieve on average about 10%, perhaps 15% of the money made by they're voice or guitar or whatever, unless they self publish which limits they're audience and thus they're profits. The rest goes to the studio crew and the band which accounts for the next 35-40%, the other 50% typically goes to fatcats who don't actually do anything but sit on their asses all day. BTW, aren't album sales at record highs? Despite all the supposed theft?
