It’s what they do.įurther, if you work by the hour then in all likelyhood you’re getting paid by the hour, have access to health insurance, a retirement plan or pension, have paid sick and vacation days and other benefits, and have a very good chance (not 100%, but still) of that job being there when you show up tomorrow. The fact is that SUCCESSFUL artists and authors are prolific. Want to know how many artists have just one album? Zip. Or take the top 25 albums selling on Amazon. Care to guess how many of the 15 authors currently on the NYT Fiction Bestseller list have written just one book? Zero. Or how about books? Yeah, King, Clancy, Weber, Rowling, Heinlein, they all wrote just one book, and then sat back and collected those royalty checks. They just don’t have the skill or talent needed to break back in. How many bands, other than one-hit-wonders, don’t work on new music? Try to find new sounds? Don’t work on reinventing themselves? The most successful do it every day, and even the one-hits almost always TRY to do so. … as a way of protecting that success, rather than working hard on new efforts.Īnother tenent of anti-copyright mantra. Either way, it may be a bit surprising that a band like the Arctic Monkeys would suddenly be against file sharing - but as some have pointed out, rather than encouraging new and innovative works, intellectual property protection often comes after some have had some successes, as a way of protecting that success, rather than working hard on new efforts. It basically reads like a press release for some company that tries to monitor and stop online file sharing - though, it’s not clear if the Arctic Monkeys are using that particular service (it’s implied, but the wording is written in a way that suggest they may not be). The article, from the Times Online, is a bit strange. Reader Sal points us to an article saying that they’re so afraid of songs being released early that music writers have to go to the band’s “headquarters” to hear a preview of the album, rather than sending out copies. That’s why it’s quite surprising to hear that the band and its backers are now doing everything possible to prevent file sharing for its latest album. The band was a true internet wonder, using file sharing to help boost attention and making the band a huge success. When people talk about how file sharing and giving away music for free can help promote a small time band into the big time, a common example is the band The Arctic Monkeys.
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