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I understand Radiohead gave away their last release in order to fill the room's while on tour. I'm not clear on this, but sure sounds like a good Idea since more money is made touring than on album sales nowadays.
its a great idea if you or your label is already loaded! dont do much for the little guy though.

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Yea, It was a miscue on my part. Sorry. My intent was to start a new thread on how "we" advertise. "We" as in all of us on Bandmix. But as I said, miscue. I dont multi task very well at times. Was Printing photos for my bandmates and add flyers, while attempting to keep in touch with ya,ll.
Thank you for being a gentleman about it. We have more than our fair share of pricks on line.

Digital rights management.

What do you think of DRM, or protecting your music with overdubs? Do you think it's really worth it (outside the realm of a major digital distributor)?

I think it's a lot of work. To me, a band can spend years making music, trying to get noticed, would KILL for people to want their music, and then when people finally do want it, the same band (or their label) shifts all that effort into "protecting" the music from being shared.

We all had cassettes back in the day, and shared music, just not on a global scale, like today. But it really isn't that different.

In the end, I've found that music sharing always has, and always will be done; all the efforts in the world will end in certain despair. There are enough honest people in the world that if your music is desirable, they will pay for it, and you may even earn a living off of it.

Protecting your copyrights is far more important, not so much to step sharing as to limit other bands from stealing your ideas.

I figure the people who are going to swipe it are going to swipe it anyway. For every protection scheme, some hacker is going to write a program that breaks it. No one likes being ripped off, but I think some of the protection schemes risk alienating legitimate music fans who would be glad to pay for music that they like.

There's certainly a problem. Especially among younger people, who view swiping music from the Internet almost as a right. I just don't think DRM and other protection schemes are the answer. Seems like a quick fix to me, not a permanent solution.

We need to go back to vinyl.

Or 8 tracks, nobody would steal them.

At my level of engagement (in the industry as a whole) DRM isn't a consideration. No one is clamoring to steal my music. No one knows I exist. I'd be thrilled if someone thought my songs were worth stealing. If they shot-gunned them all over the internet, I'd consider it free promotion. And if they made any money off it, well, it 's not money they took from me.
The only thing I am concerned about is copyright protection. Everything I've published on line is copyrighted. I'd be a fool not to.

I don't mind someone else gassing up the bus, so long as I get to drive it after the people are on.

Given a choice, I'll nearly always come down on the side of less control rather than more. Any time you impose artificial limitations on a thing, its natural development suffers.

The way I look at if someone steals my music and starts making any real money, then people are going to come looking for whoever came up with the noise in the first place. If someone wants my music, they dont have to steal it I'll give it to them. I think the last thing anyone on this site should worry about is someone stealing their music. If you are that scared just copywright all your music before you post it. Ive probably written or been involved with writing a couple of hundred songs, but Im sure if I researched enough I could find something else out here that matches it in someway. As a musician we are all thiefs anyway, stealing a little of this and that trying to be original. I dont think you can steal whats already been stole.

Sounds like the basis of a song

You cant steal whats been stole.........

Go on someone just run with that thought, I'll give it to you free.

I'm interested in this topic; I've had a lot of offers, but none that I'm crazy about.
Also, I'd be interested in other musicians experiences in hooking up w/ lyricists; I've had offers from about 20 lyricists (some are excellent writers), but I think I may need an attorney first . . .
. . . anyone?
I'm looking for replies from people who have already succeeded at this, if there is anyone on this site, that is . . .

jw123 said, "As a musician we are all thiefs anyway.'
Speak for yourself, man . . .