Day: July 29, 2009

I posted in an adult section of a board I will not mention at least here of peoples opinion on Furries. I know it is very unscientific but the results are interesting. But here how it breaks down on the replies I actually got.

60% believed it was just a fetish
30% believed they were only in to role play
10% other

The following is taken directly from an email from someone in the music industry. I think you might find it interesting.

Personally… I have never sold many albums of my own, and all were regional, all in the 70s and early 80s. I always made more money by selling songs to production houses (film and TV producers for use as ‘script songs’ – based on some character or story-line), and doing instrumental compositions.

Since the early ’90s, however, more artists have started leasing music. “Here, take a 2-year-lease on this song, and you can use it exclusively for THIS purpose, but not for anything else… or, pay me more, and you can use it for other purposes, too. At the end of the lease, the rights go back to me and I can re-lease to whomever for whatever purpose.”

Studios tried to halt that, but many people took class-action suits against them as “restraint of trade”, and now, 16 or 17 years later, leasing is fairly commonplace. AND GOOD FOR ARTISTS. But screw the studios.

Honestly, they have ripped off so many artists for so many decades, I couldn’t give a flip if Sony or BMG or Virgin Records lives or dies.

Those people, along with the warehouse middlemen called “distributors”, have ruined the industry thru their theft and tyranny.

No one talks about that.

Do you remember the whole Sue-Napster-Thing? Napster’s “giving away music” wasn’t the big issue. The BIG issue was that Napster could deliver an accurate count of how many times a song was played over the internet, or downloaded.

Napster could tell an artist EXACTLY – hour by hour, minute by minute – how popular his song was.

The record companies HATED that. “Accurate accounting?!! OH MY!!” That was their biggest fear. Accurate accounting. Accurate counts. REAL money could be traced and fed to artists.

They HAD to stop that.

Even to this day, I’ll bet there are 200 lawsuits against recording companies by artists who’ve discovered they aren’t getting paid properly.

Yet the recording industry says THEY are the ones losing money! Yeah. Right. Just like pirates complain that they can’t steal as much!

THAT is their real complaint.