--- Michael Vg wrote:
>>If I agreed to such a ridiculously low cost from which iTunes takes their 
>>mandatory 13 to 15% and my broker gets another 10% for digitizing and 
>>administering my material (independent acts and labels cannot deal with 
>>the large portals direct -- the MUST have a broker/aggragate as middle 
>>man....

>Ok, I am a bit confused here. You mean to tell me you have to pay someone 
>to digitize the music?  >Simplistic I know, but I rip my music from CD all 
>the time so what am I missing in this process?
>Is this truly necessary or just another bloated process? I am enjoying your 
>insights into how things >work, so please, explain this.

Different type of digitizing. Our music is already in a raw digital file 
format... .WAV form to be exact. And yeah, anyone can rip and convert to 
MP3. The issue is the ID3 tags, the ISRC coding and the specific digitizing 
with iTunes' software.

Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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