[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[JF Mezei]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> AFAIK, at least in most countries there is nothing to stop someone from 
> giving away the music they create; no-one is forced at gunpoint to sign 
> with a record company.  


In the past, if you had music and wanted to sell it, the record company
was the one with access to vylin rcord production, packaging, shipping
and most importantly distribution to record stores and to radio stations.

This is changing now where an artist could become famous on youtube and
the sell music on itunes without going through a record company. But the
record copanies still have a big say in who gets to be famous or not
(and impose on us highly undesirable music like rap and auto-tune on
artists).