Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace

Its just business models changing. People still love music, and are still happy to pay for it. But they want it in different formats through dfferent means.
Artists and djs need to redefine what they do and figure out how they are going to get paid for it. Nowadays it seems you need a fair few strings to your bow to make a good living from music.

Its pretty harsh though. There seems to be a glut of money in music for a select few, and comparatively little for the rest.
this is pretty much bang on point..
The illegal download thing is not going to stop, you just have to work out ways around it, I personally make a lot more money out of performance than recordings, so this is what I'm trying to focus on more myself....