right lets show some light on the uk side of things.
to buy a top name dance mixed cd. anywhere between 15-18 pounds.
to buy a artist album from 6-15 pounds.
one of the key things that disappoints me about the music industry is the lack of choice there is to buy in shops. (you could blame that on the shops)
i'm a dance/trance fan. im sure there are many others. i have 2 music shops in my town, hmv and virgin.
in virgin there's a fairly decent amount of dance/trance albums there, but not enough. there is like 4 shelfs, thats all.
in hmv decent size shop, near the back of the shop is dance, i find myself shocked to find only 2, yes 2 shelfs of dance/trance.
so lets say you could stick about 8 2cd albums on the shelf and 6 rows wide and 6 rows going down.
you work the maths.
now lets move to another genre, rock
hmv 3 lengths of the shop probably about 30-40 shelfs.
virgin only about 15-20 (only because it stocks a few more urban genre's)
to listen to new music, i have to resort to internet radio (e.g. ets-global.org) since, you've guessed it, new songs get released elsewhere before it comes out in the uk.
the top dj's for trance e.g. ferry corsten/paul van dyk/dj tiesto make rubbish albums. i looked at ferry's new euphoria album, it's got old and new songs on it, 99.9% of the songs i've heard before a few hundred times. so that albums is considered boring to me and not worth listening to, and the price? 15.99.
now here's the thing. trance needs the internet, a lot of dj's let the internet radio stations broadcast their live sets and shows. to let more people listen and hopefully get a few more cd sales.
one example:
armin van buuren's a state of trance show (2 hours every thursday) broadcasted on id-t radio in netherlands.
every now and then dj's come on and do guest mixes and some of the time advertise their new album.
some dj's are against broadcasting their shows/mixes/albums. but some prefer to do mixes like once every 2 weeks. because the more you plug yourself the more chance you'll get followers and maybe more cd sales.
so this is a great example of why the internet helps a genre of music, if the internet didnt follow trance, then you wont see as many albums and maybe radio stations will drop it from their shedules.
but anyway, the main reason why people get caught is they share key songs that the riaa search. it's not a question of sharing too much and where you share. kazaa,directconnect,winmx. the riaa are already on these places crawling to find offenders.
there is 2 things driving the internet p0rn and p2p. more bandwidth used means researching faster methods of internet connections. internet2 can transfer a dvd in like 4 seconds.
the riaa is fighting a losing battle imo. because the more they crack down on users the more they will fight. for example more secure p2p, encryped ip's? encrypted files? there's already programs in development.
end of the day comes to, do you want a lawsuit taken against you?
