Hi josh.
i'm afraid I disagree on distribution completely, since if you look at the
markup that goes into prophit, even for something with little to no cost it
is unbelieveable. i would be quite happy paying individual people, it is
paying massive companies that I disagree with.
i do agree amazon mp3 and the like are good ways of paying individual
musicians, but they still only cover a certain percentage of what happens,
also I am not absolutely convinced by apple's absolute control model since
if Apple doesn't think what you've got will sell, well tough. While paying a
small percentage to apple for ful distribution digitally is better than
paying a record company, it is still not ideal and still leaves far too much
control in the hands of one organization, and just! on that organizations
terms.
while I know you are huge fans of everything Apple, I myself am a little too
suspect of company motivations when they have that level of control.
Microsoft were bad enough, but at least distribution was comparatively free.
Myself, I'm not convinced fair distribution method will ever be achieved
until it is controled by a none prophit organization so that individuals
can! get paid for their work directly without massive markup going to the
middle men.
Since however this discussion is distinctly not related to games we'd better
stop.
All the best,
Dark.
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