New MP3 search engine…check it out
Recently while downloading “stuff” from MegaUpload, I noticed an ad that read: “Free MP3 Search Engine. The biggest & fastest. Millions of users every day.” The site is called 12Mp3.com (Thats a weird name: 12?)
Anyhoo, this site works quite well for popular songs (i don’t know about the quality of the files because i did not download any, might be ILLEGAL!)
So check it out and post you comments here
Filed under: Personal Thoughts by paul |
It wouldn’t let me comment on the post I was trying to comment on - click submit kept bringing me to an advertisment.
I don’t quite agree with you.
First, I have to say that not all musicians make tons of money from music. Actually, perhaps only a few hundred actually make enough to ‘make a living’ from it. Do you know how much a musician is paid everytime a $20 CD is sold? It’s ususally around a dollar, sometimes as low as a couple of cents. How many CDs would that person have to sell to make a million dollars? A million or more!
From http://www.bls.gov/k12/music06.htm:
Earnings depend on how popular a performer is. The middle half of all musicians earned between $18,660 and $59,970 a year in 2002. The lowest-paid 10 percent earned less than $13,040. The highest-paid 10 percent made more than $96,250. But musicians often have to hold down other jobs (called “day jobs”) while they’re building up their careers. The most successful musical stars can make much more than the earnings listed here.
Now to address your points. Music is indeed something sacred and can be enjoyed by all humans. However, that does not mean that people should not be allowed to ‘make a living’ out of it. Would you agree that language is very beautiful, and vital to human life? Yet there are authors who create books out of language and sell them. Is it wrong for them to spend hours and hours creating this book and making money from it? It’s the same with music - is it wrong for a musician to spend hours and hours creating a song and make money from it?
I’m not a rock musician, but I am a classical pianist. I can tell you right now that now very many people are born with a talent for music. And even if a person IS born with that talent, it’s not like they don’t have to work at it. Creating music is a skill, and requires practise and creativity. People who work with NASA - they must be very talented with mathematics. Someone else applies for the same job at NASA - they hardly know what 2+2 is. Is it wrong for the person good at math to be paid, and the person bad at math to be fired? Just the same as whether it’s wrong for a person good as music to use it for a job, as a person bad at music who tries to do the same thing would go bankrupt.
What you’re proposing to do - allow people to download ‘unlimited’ music for $3-$5 a month, is really not going to work. Let’s say if this happened that everytime you downloaded a song, the artist makes a penny. It would take 3 million people to download that song for the artist to make $30,000. For most artists, they don’t have 3 million loyal fans.
Comment on March 25, 2006 @ 6:55 pm
You make a very good point! But, Real has already started offering UNLIMITED MUSIC DOWNLOADS for STUDENTS for only $3 per month!
This should mean that this solution works for both artists and music vending companies like Real!
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Comment on April 2, 2006 @ 10:17 pm