Musicians Embrace Free Downloads

While the big players try to fight download technologies like Bit Torrent and P2P, independent musicians encourage fans to share.

(PRWEB) January 8, 2005 -- According to a recent study from Pew, "Two-thirds of artists say peer-to-peer file sharing poses a minor threat or no threat at all to them." While the big players try to fight download technologies like Bit Torrent and P2P, independent musicians encourage fans to share.

Dilvie is an electronic music producer in Salt Lake City, Utah. He recently announced that he has supplied over 100,000 free music downloads, and now he's reaching out to help other musicians do the same. He's launching a blog, titled simply, "Free Music Downloads". "The goal," he says, "is to share the phenomenal talents of many lesser-known musicians in the electronic music scene with as many people as possible."

Dilvie will be promoting his blog next month on the new radio talk-show, "Think About It." The show is about indie music promotion, and, according to the show's producer (Kenny Love), boasts a certified listenership of 790,000.

While many other artists try to sell CD's online, Dilvie is convinced that people don't want to buy something you could give away for free. "When MP3.com was going strong, it was clear that the free downloads were much more popular than CD sales." He advocates merchandise sales, concerts, and online donations to supplement slow CD sales. "It's easy to set up a paypal donation form," he says. "Donations haven't been frequent, by any means, but I received one donation of $1,000, and I didn't have to ship out 200 CDs."

http://download-electronica.blogspot.com/
http://www.dilvie.com/

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