And worry not that your music is suddenly becoming heard by many people, worry not that those people, far from buying a Myspace Greatest Hits CD will be buying music DIRECT from YOU...and telling their friends, passing your page around the world (I found Seth Lakeman on a Russian one the other day)....

Show of Hands of course, have been TELLING people to copy their music for years! At every single gig they stand on stage and give people their permission to record the show, then to copy their music and send it on to others, with their blessings....because they KNOW that whilst they may lose a few CD sales, they will gain many more. And along with those extra CD sales...they will also gain new people who will become part of the Show of Hands world. Many of those people who learnt about Steve and Phil through 'copied' music will, no doubt, be at the third sold out BIG GIG at the Royal Albert Hall next Easter...tickets for which went within days!

If someone ELSE owned Myspace Diane, would you be ranting quite so hard???????

How much is this about Murdoch and how much is about Myspace? And do you really think that Murdoch is going to make an absolute fortune selling 4 tracks of people's music?

Perhaps it's because you're *not* in Myspace that you don't understand the strength and incredibly postivie benefits of it.

But..I'll leave you to spread your negativity....as you always seem to want to do.....

Lizzie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio2/F2142825?thread=2380796

And the fRoots one:

http://froots.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1292

The benefits of Myspace are huge! At the touch of a button, music is now being whizzed around the world like never before! The other day, on my page, I was playing Seth Lakeman's music and I had a link to his site on the main page. Someone sent me a message, later that day, from Maine in the USA, to say that they'd just heard Seth's music after finding my page and liked it so much that they'd downloaded all three of his CDs from iTunes immediately!

Diane (the countess)has been doing her utmost to cause chaos over Myspace, as you'll see in the BBC thread. But..the benefits far outweigh the risks (in my opinion) It is putting artists in touch with other artists and those artists can now also be in touch with their audience too...from a safe and private distance.

I can now e mail an artist's page to all sorts of people and say "Here....LISTEN to this music! Isn't it SENSATIONAL!" It is the most magical thing, it really is!

Murdoch didn't invent Myspace, he just bought it recently.

Ian Anderson of fRoots is behind it, as are other artists on the BBC thread. I'd read what *they* all have to say, before making any decisions on what Diane is saying. There are now over 80 million people in Myspace....there is a whole folk community in there, from musicians to dancers, folk festivals/magazines to radio programmes. It is like it's own music industry now, but one in which we all have a say. Everyone is helping each other, everyone is supportive.

If you're paranoid about it all, then just have some samples for people to hear.

I've found nearly 600 wonderful musicians from all around the world and some of that music has been staggeringly beautiful! To the extent that I've bought CDs almost immediately!...CDs from artists whom I would probably never, *ever* have heard of if I hadn't been in Myspace.

And...they are all here:

http://www.myspace.com/lizziecornish

And far from going on messageboards to try and put artists OFF Myspace Diane, I'll say once more what I said to you on the BBC, and that is, that perhaps you could do far more good by getting your own page and trying to help all the artists that you admire to spread their music as far as it will reach.

Lizzie :0)