Artist Uploads His Own Work To Bypass Fat-Cat Middlemen

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In a big gamble that will hopefully pay off an artist has uploaded some of his work for folks to sample.

http://www.p2p-blog.com/index.php?itemid=479

Benn Jordan, also known under his electronica moniker The Flashbulb, has uploaded copies of his newest album "Soundtrack To A Vacant Life" to What.cd, The Pirate Bay and other torrent trackers in order to bypass the ineffective means of traditional distribution.

The album download comes complete with an info file that addresses the readers with "hello listener...downloader...pirate...pseudo-criminal...", and then continues:

"If you can read this, then you've more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent. You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you're hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won't tell you that."
Want to buy a CD just to show your support? If you don't particularly like CDs, don't bother. Retailers like Best Buy and Amazon spike the price so high that their cut is often 8 times higher than the artist's. Besides, most CDs are made out of unrecyclable plastic and leave a nasty footprint in your environment."

Record labels aren’t meeting the demands of their customers. That’s why music piracy is destroying the music industry. No matter how many people you sue, how many torrent sites you take down, or how many idiotic methods you come up with to protect the date (Key2Audio, DRM, etc)…people will always prevail at doing what they want to do. At some point the industry needs to come to grips with that fact that their business model is changing, and they have to devise new business plans inside the parameters of the situation. I don’t think donation is the long-term answer, but it is hell of a lot better than pretending 85% of your audience doesn’t exist."

I dont think theres any need for me to say anything more, this guy obviously knows his own value and I think maybe we will be hearing more from him in the future, good luck  Benn 

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Great news lets hope a lot more artists stick 2 fingers up at the monopolies and go down this route I'm sure a lot more people would support the artists if they new they was going to profit themselves instead of the record companies skimming as much off them as possible.

Perhaps a section on the forum promoting such artists might be the way forward..... at least we cant be attacked for that by the cartells