Artist Praises File-Sharing for Increasing Ability to Tour
Date : 2008 06 22 Category : Web News
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News
Slightly Stoopid frontman Miles Doughty calls P2P a means of spreading music to the "masses [who] may not have heard of your music in the first place."
Seemingly lost in the whole debate over file-sharing is the fact that music should really be all about the people who actually make and produce it. Major record labels have long been its gatekeepers and have unfairly used the position to steal money from music artists whenever possible, either outright or in fees for things like "breakage."
However, since the advent of file-sharing services like Napster back in 1999 music artists are no longer so heavily dependent on the music industry's distribution and marketing skills. All that's needed is an internet connection and a healthy does of creativity.