This is where you lost it
Really only the biggest players benefit - the richest, most powerful players benefit. Small stakeholders can't really compete when the market's like that..
You are right of course, you mean the legacy big players though dont you.
The money distributed by the monopoloy collection societies in each country only pay out to the top 50 or so artists, the ones at the top that are already rich, and even then, they screw them over by passing that money through several organisations first.
Courtney love can tell you, shes been there, she knows.
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
eminem can also tell you, hes there now, being screwed over by the big, rich player.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/25/eminem-universal-digital-royalties-lawsuit
Obviously with all the money going to the top artists, theres nothing for the upcoming artists, so they have to struggle. The way i see it currently, all you maximalists want every one to pay you all for the total crap you put out, and the great stuff you big, rich players don't want us to hear.
Can't have your cake and eat it you know, no matter how much of a fit you throw.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
