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Black Box Income? The Digital Black Hole! So What Incentive Is There To Be An Artist Anymore?
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Purchasing and/or illegally sharing music files has been fairly standard for almost a decade. In reality we have had MP3s since 1994. So why in most artists recording contracts do labels still refer to digital sales as “New Media”? There is nothing new about it.







Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...


