bogon07 Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 from CNET By Greg Sandoval Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: April 28, 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1027-6066669.html?tag=tb"Sony playing a Cheap Trick on musicians?Two rock bands, the Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick, have filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG alleging that they are shortchanged when Sony divvies up royalties from digital downloads .............................Right now the bands receive only 4.5 cents on every 99 cent sale of one of their songs, the suit claims."Not just SONY but all record companies evidently are paid around 70 cents by the likes of iTunes for downloaded songs and by treating this sale in a similar way to a physical CD and assuming breakages, returns, etc manage to avoid paying the artist most of the royalties. Also makes you wonder what sort of margins SONY has with their ConnectStore downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 (edited) Now Sony is becoming thief day by day (from me to Sony ) Edited May 2, 2006 by stuge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogon07 Posted May 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Not just SONY but all the major record labels.Artists with SONY would probably be more likely to take them to court due to SONY's recent bad publicity with Rootkits hoping for atleast a decent out of court settlement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 this is exactly why I didn't feel sorry for copying big-label cd's as a student... it is NOT stealing from the artist, as the company already did that part... it is stealing from a thief I did pay for my concert tickets, so I actually did pay te artistwith local bands and indies etc I always bought the real stuffPS: nowadays I'm working and I simply buy the cd's I want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 This is an old well known problem of the music industry. Problem is the public doesn't care. All they want is the lates hyped hip-hop or pop star. Yeah, you heard people complaining about this online and message boards, but go to Best Buy/Target, and you'll see people still buying the crap hip-hop/pop churned by the music industry.Also, the internet and P2P are opened for anyone, any artists. Yet they're still flocking the same old labels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 lol thats been on BBC.com for a week or so now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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