I was never a big fan of Prince, but I'm 100% with him where selling downloads is concerned: iTunes is a typical example of a company that thinks it's too big to be held to account. When I found out they were selling illegal downloads of one of my records, I tried to telephone them to have a friendly chat about how it came to be on there, but just got a prerecorded message telling me to go on their website, after which I was cut off. Going to their website, I found a feedback page, but it said one would not receive a reply. Next I found a page for reporting tracks that should not be on their, but that was useless too, as I could find no way of expressing my telephone number (a required field)so it would not come up as invalid. Eventually, I found out that they will deal only with a select group of agencies, which makes it economic only if one sells millions of downloads. When I found out the track was one that had been licenced for a CD, the profits of which were for charity, I let it remain there and arranged to receive royalties, but they seem to pay the artists only 1c per download, which seems grossly unfair given the cost of a download. I would rather have people download my music free from You Tube than have iTunes make money from it.
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Selling Downloads
I was never a big fan of Prince, but I'm 100% with him where selling downloads is concerned: iTunes is a typical example of a company that thinks it's too big to be held to account. When I found out they were selling illegal downloads of one of my records, I tried to telephone them to have a friendly chat about how it came to be on there, but just got a prerecorded message telling me to go on their website, after which I was cut off. Going to their website, I found a feedback page, but it said one would not receive a reply. Next I found a page for reporting tracks that should not be on their, but that was useless too, as I could find no way of expressing my telephone number (a required field)so it would not come up as invalid. Eventually, I found out that they will deal only with a select group of agencies, which makes it economic only if one sells millions of downloads. When I found out the track was one that had been licenced for a CD, the profits of which were for charity, I let it remain there and arranged to receive royalties, but they seem to pay the artists only 1c per download, which seems grossly unfair given the cost of a download. I would rather have people download my music free from You Tube than have iTunes make money from it.