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Originally Posted by His Infernal Majesty
Ok so let's use those numbers so 400,000 downloads now at 4/1000 is $1600 on Megaupload.
Still using 10,000 sold (40x less bought instead of downloaded) as a base number x $10 paid per album is $100,000 total. The artist gets $23.40 per $1000 sold so 2.34%. That is $2340.
Honestly, it looks like both ways they are being screwed. File lockers also routinely screw over their own affiliates, as well, plus there is no way to truly ensure their download tracking or country filter is working.
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The average musican makes that, remember top tier artist don't get screwed over as much, so for every britney spears there are 1000 artist who have to make nothing or less.
Remember you still have to cover your advance out of that money so most artist will actually owe the record company money which means their next album need to recoup even more to get paid royalties (and of course that one doesn't get an advance)
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I can see why you would be behind kickstarter and direct distribution, however I don't understand why you would advocate for megaupload.
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because you don't have to give up the copyright to get that money
you get 100% of liciencing revenue you generate
you keep 100% of the sale you make on your web site
and if people want to simply donate money to you keep 100% of that too.
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mega upload works on the small scale as well as the large scale. There is no negative position