Official Ares Free Download

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- a2f2a.com is now online underpinned by the vital principle: Artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them.

It’s the Internet’s first, and so far only, site created specifically to put music lovers together with music makers.

Co-founders Billy Bragg and Jon Newton say the site has three goals »»»

1. Help each community better understand the other;
2. Help find a practical and workable system which offers artists fair remuneration in exchange for access to material by fans; and
3. Help set the agenda for discussions about the role P2P can play within the emergent digital record industry.

“The internet has huge potential for artists to make a living on their own terms,” say Bragg and Newton in their first post, going on »»»

Previously, they’ve been forced to rely on the recording industry to fund recordings, manufacture and distribute their art and collect money for them. Without industry help, it was almost impossible to find enough fans to support a career.

Fans have also had to rely on the corporate recording industry to provide the music they wanted to hear. They listened to the radio in the hope of hearing the artists they loved, they bought weekly music mags to find out where and when their favourite bands were playing, and they went to record shops to get the music they wanted.

But fans can now do it all with the click of a mouse – and significantly, increasing numbers of artists are learning to do the same. Fans can get all the information they need about their favourite artists, and artists can find their fans online, without the scattergun approach of putting product into every record store in the country — and then keeping their fingers crossed.

But most important of all, fans can now support artists by paying them directly.

Stay tuned.

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October, 2009

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