Usenet Newsgroups Re: My method against music piracy From: sgordon@changethisparttohardbat.com Your method seems likely only to help the few artists that are already rich and successful. Yuri Degg <ydeg71@tiscali.it> wrote: : 1. Make 2 great albums. Develop adoring fan base; : 2. set realistic, or moderately optimistic, sales goal for your 2nd :    record, let's call this figure "X"; : 3. make 3rd great album; : 4. put progress bar on your band's home page, along with the following :    message: "Our awesome third album is ready! We will start selling it :    as soon as our 2nd album reaches X copies sold!"; : 5. update progress bar daily with sales figures for your 2nd album. : If you already have a dedicated fan base, you may skip step #1. : If people want to hear more of your music, they'll do the right thing : and support you. : Yes, I am actually thinking of implementing this stuff for real. If : everybody did this, piracy would be reduced to marginality (no good new : music otherwise) and X would increase for all. Of course, the whole : process needs to be backed by quality albums. : Thank you for your comments. : -- : As long as there's, you know, hug and drugs, : I can do without the rock and roll. :      -- irish Shrimpton, "This Is Spinal Tap" Subject