Take 2 Beers and Jump! Musicians and Music Artists Are Angry Over Music Streaming Site Agendas

Many Internet music sites are making huge profits by paying musicians and music artists virtually nothing, for what is termed "music streaming." Paying subscribers at these sites are encouraged to listen "free" to all the songs they wish to stream.

Musicians and individual artists are toiling their lives away, devoting precious time to create songs, only to have it used by these giant "streaming" sites, who would have the public believe these musicians and artists are being paid. In reality, Rhapsody and Napster pay for streaming at about a penny per song, yet both sites continue to charge the public their site's full price for each song streamed, by offering this "free" music as part of their monthly paid subscriptions.

Imagine working half of a lifetime for virtually nothing. Thousands of musicians and music artists are victims who may be unaware of unfair practices dominated by greedy music streaming sites. What seems to be the case for many musicians and artists who place their music with certain web sites, is as follows: Musicians and artists sign-up in order to have their songs downloaded. Yet, some download sites are now including music streaming, without an artist's actual permission. This means a loss of download earnings when music is streamed, while bands and solo performers are only paid a penny (or less) per song streamed.

This article had to be written to inform the music streaming public, who should strongly object to how streaming funds are distributed. It is about time musicians and artists begin to receive their fair share of the monies collected, even though by paying a fair share, the music streaming sites stand to lose some of their ill-gained huge profits.

Why hasn't the music industry, including publishers, and others, especially record labels, taken steps to become involved in stopping this streaming fiasco?

It is an outrage that some years ago, the group, Metallica, had to take action in their own behalf against Napster to prevent them from giving the band's and other artist's songs away for free. Is this a case of, 'here we go again?'

Speaking for thousands of music artists, musicians and songwriters, action concerning unfair streaming should be taken immediately by the executives responsible for distribution of music streaming funds.

~Jan Davis

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