Originally Posted by His Infernal Majesty

Wow, I haven't heard of her before, but she's great! So much effort and production value put into the videos, too. Really thought out.

In any system, though, most "artists" will not make it. This whole system was built up over the last 60 years or so, and for some people it works for others it doesn't work.

I cannot see how Megaupload was providing more money than a label even on a bad deal, though. I did a lot of research into filelocker affiliate programs, and while they tout stuff like $35/1000 downloads, that's only on straight top tier traffic on a huge 2GB file. Most albums in mp3 format are only around 50mb and would only produce around $4/1000. If 100,000 people downloaded an album of your music, you'd only get $400. If only 10,000 people actually BOUGHT your album, and the record label ripped you off and only gave you 10 CENTS per unit, you'd still make $1000!

Am I missing something here?