gibber71

I'll be the odd man out here since I'm a working musician.I understand everyones point of view but to say the record companies make all the money from cd's is misleading.A cd does not just fall out of the sky.Some of the costs to be covered in the expense of making a cd are;paying the people who record the cd( recording engineers,musicians,producers,recording studio costs etc..).Then there is the raw materials that make the cd,the plastic cd cover,the artwork,the people who are paid to do these things.There are the people who work in distribution centers packaging,shipping and driving the trucks to the airport for shipment to destinations.Then from there are retail owners who have to sell the marked up cd's to profit and have a viable business.Plus record copanies spend alot of money promoting artists and have a lot of people behind the scene working very hard to make that happen.All these people are not doing this for charity but to make a living,because one way or the other they love music.Incidentally,if the artist writes their own music,they get approx. 6 cents per song per cd sold, and that is only after all the bills are payed by everyone else. Is this unfair to all concerned? I dunno,That's up to each individual artist to decide and to the people who are losing there jobs in the record business.Personally I can't wait until people start stealing hundreds of millions of Ford trucks and changing the logo to something else and giving them away for free.Oh I forgot,that's not intellectual property.