NY Times: Record Labels' Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed. Last December, the major record labels responded with two Internet services of their own where fans pay monthly fees to download songs. Under this arrangement, however, the performers still don't get a dime: for each song downloaded, they stand to get only a fraction of a cent... [Tomalak's Realm]
Assuming the stated facts here are correct, this neatly serves to confirm my worst suspicions about the record companies. Wouldn't it be refreshing if somewhere, someone came out and said upfront that they were adopting a particular course of action because it was going to make them more money, rather than always resorting to the spin of presenting things in the best possible light. Fundamentally, the spin-as-best-we-can approach is an insult to people's intelligence.
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