Free the Music, Not Make the Music Free
by Mike Darrah

This is the passion that drives me and I have explained it to many already, but will continue to do so until I see the trends changing in this music industry, and the real digital music revolution begins to break free.

The largest trick the devil ever played on the world was to convince the majority of the masses that he did not exist. The largest trick the recording industry is playing on musicians is that digital music is here to steal from them and make them poor. To the contrary, digital music is only technology. Technology enables us to progress farther then possible before it's inception, this is why we as a society push the drive to further the development of technology, breaking barriers in the process which seemed impossible to overcome previously.

New technology has been born which could be used by the artists to break free from the traditional controls which have been placed directly upon them before this new technological option by the existing, traditional industry. An Industry which still to this day make the majority of the money and claims control over an artists creativity and works of art and expressions of their passions into indemnity.

This "shadow" of negativity over technology, which the recording industry has used Napster and other peer-to-peer systems to grow, now over shadows our new technological achievements as mankind, and demeans the ability for artists to understand the truth of the options available now to them.

Because of the existence of the new system of distribution enabled by technologies progression into the new century, artists need to understand that a recording contract is not necessarily needed to become successful and reach the masses with their artistic impressions. This I wish to seriously stress unto everyone. Now is the time for the options for the artists be removed from these shadows of negativity, and that we enable the true digital music revolution to shine unto the world. Giving back to the artist the very art which they create to make the this industry, and allowing them to reclaim the control.

Ask the majority of the artists what he or she thinks of "digital music" and the brainwashing will be exposed. The majority of the artist either have no clue or do not care to know about the technology, or passionately despise the existing P2P systems which enable people to get their music for free.

Rarely if ever do you hear how artists have gotten clever and used technology to break free from their recording contracts which have put them into situation which they never envisioned when signing on the dotted line.

I just wish that the truth would be illustrated to the artists and then they would know that they at least are educated before deciding on their future in the music business.

I am not saying that all of the roles which a recording company provides are obsolete, not in the least. But what I am saying is that in this day and age, to not inform the artists of the option they have to try and succeed without the need to sign away their control over their art is doing a seriously wrong disservice to them, even more so then Napster and all of the peer-to-peer file sharing systems in the world combined.