[Rumori] Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[matt davignon]

>Although songwriters typically earn only pennies for every sale of a 
>recorded song, if every person who downloaded "Hard Knock Life" had bought 
>a CD instead, Mr. Strouse would have collected at least $46,000 in royalty 
>payments, assuming he would have received 4 cents a download.

This is flawed reasoning, assuming that all (or even a large amount) of 
downloaders would shell out $20 for a full length cd if they just wanted the 
song. If they offered the singles at stores for a reasonable price, I'm sure 
more folks would buy 'em. There was talk a few years ago about a 
jukebox-like device that would allow people to create custom cdr's from 
songs in its database for something like $1 a song. (It was supposed to 
appear at record stores.) What happened to that?

I admit I've been rethinking this free-download thing over the past 3 years 
or so, but articles like this seem like little more than paid advertisements 
for the recording industry. (And a songwriter with a higher salary than most 
doctors can hardly be described as having their income "disastrously 
impacted" by piracy.)

Has anybody tried this Itunes thing? Are their downloads in mp3 format? Or 
some non-useful proprietary format?

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