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Originally Posted by Hebdomad
I agree with dante on two points in particular. As soon as someone devises a way to pay that's as easy as pressing a key on your mobile phone to give directly to an artist revenue streams will increase for artists. If large media companies remain (I'm not really sure if they will or not but then I'm biased against this kind of centralisation so I'm looking at things in an idealistic way) they will probably increase patronage as positive association with the arts can't be that different from advertisement's current association between attractive man/woman and product; this particularly applies if Jessie Jackson's recent calls to use your currency to enact change catches on.
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direct payment will in a way no doubt increase. you all can be rather dramatic about it however.
Ignorance in the past bred into the generation above us a sort of perverse utopia of individualism. allow me to explain:
Yes technology will allow for direct "to artist" payments but think rationally. Who as an artist would 'cash every cheque'? Observe every transaction. Maintain the website. Enforce faulty payment. Defend against fraud. Or even pay the requisite tax? Would each artist design their own posters? Make their own media statements?
While I enjoy the noble ideals of youth; what you miss is understanding the value of interdependancy. We are all connected and dependents upon each other. There is no inherent evil in record labels.
Instead you need to view
every exchange of money as a chain. If there is a link too many then in time the market will correct itself. The delay period in which we await that change need not be thought about in moral terms.