[Rumori] re: Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[Vicki Bennett]

You beat me to writing that.  Is true.  Very few artists see this as 
their main or only income - it sometimes is a nice additive to playing 
concerts, the after-concert product sales often pay more than the gig 
fee.  The main money I make from CDs is from radio play royalties.  
This isn't affected by having put 12 years of music online.  Putting 
music online gets one huge amounts of publicity, giving access to whole 
new groups of people.

All of these things can co-exist together, people are too black and 
white about all of this.  Times are simply changing and CD sales of 
course are going down as a result of formats changing too.  But 
interest in music isn't going down, that's when the worrying should 
begin.

> not to split hairs, but most artists make their money off touring, not 
> cd sales...