The Double-Dip Mentality

[whyBish]

With the web, direct distribution is possible. Many artists offer direct over the web services, easily paid for. Artists many have probably never heard of. Artists need to break away from Sony and like distributors that take to much of a cut and form their own independant platform for selling their music.[right][snapback]99849[/snapback][/right]

And so we end up with what? Individual artists need their own website (which they will 99% get some company to provide since they lack the skills) The website would be standalone so wouldn't be found without a central index type site (i.e. a distributor proxy), so they would need to pay for distribution. And promotion, how would you get to know that their music existed??

There is a good reason why these artists *willingly* sign up to labels in the first place. They don't have the expertise in marketing and distribution. If they did, they wouldn't need to sign up now, would they?