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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by Schmidt on Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:51AM (#3652255)
2000 / 400 = 5

Are you kidding me, no artists gets $5 per sold record. If you sell a lot and have a really good deal you get around $2 (britney spears kinda big).

The records my fathers band have recorded give them about $.5 for all of them (six members). They barely cover their production costs with that...

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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by patrickk on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:03AM (#3652316)
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

This link always gets mentioned in relation to artists/labels and who gets what, so here it is.

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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by lookelsewhere on Thursday March 01, 2012 @02:20PM (#3653567)
Your link wasn't working for me, but here is what did: http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/singleton/?mobile.htm...

Thank you for sharing that, btw. I enjoyed the read...

edit: fixed link

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