Comments on: Joss Stone gets into file sharing fight

By: SteelWolf

SteelWolf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:09:17 +0000

The first and most important aspect of a successful business model in the digital age is quality. Last decade, low-quality stuff could be, as surfer said, force-fed to the people and make all kinds of money. In an age where people can connect directly to each other, consumers become customers, able to select what they will and will not spend their money on.

This is why there is no need to wholesale support “the music industry” through things like taxes and blanket licensing. The ways for satisfied customers to financially support specifically what they enjoy are there. Creative works are now a free market, which means the customers can always win.

By: Dreddsnik

Dreddsnik — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:57:03 +0000

thepeer says:What Joss (not Josh) Stone seems to be implying is that only untalented ones need to be concerned about the future of the music industry

Actually, I took it to mean that only the untalented ones need to be concerned with FILE SHARING.Through file sharing, the crap gets weeded out BEFORE the money gets laid out. I hope to be corrected if I got the wrong impression.

By: thepeer

thepeer — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:52:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s helpful to start playing the game of which musicians deserve to be paid and which don’t. What Joss (not Josh) Stone seems to be implying is that only untalented ones need to be concerned about the future of the music industry; whereas the truth is that both she and Lily Allen have been singled out for hype and heavy rotation, and have generally hitched their wagon to the old recording industry gravy train.

There are plenty of other equally accomplished performers who I’m sure would love to benefit from that kind of exposure and the kind of payouts that go with it. But I don’t think anyone here is naive enough to think that the system that’s now dying was ever fair or worked well for most musicians.

By: surfer

surfer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:37:27 +0000

Joss is right, silly Lily is another talentless prat the music industry force feeds the sheeple, beleive me, there isn’t alot of damage being done to her career by file sharing, her works are not on the ‘top 10 pirated works’, if you get me.

coming from a vicarious file sharer, that would be me, I went and found some stuff by Josh and it was pretty good, and if she weren’t on a label, id woulda bought her CD..

By: Dreddsnik

Dreddsnik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:45 +0000

” according to Stone in the Guardian, “needs to sell records because she’s not a singer, and that’s not an offence to her because I think that she knows that too”.

Painful as it may be, the truth is neither evil or good, it just is.