" How To Become An Independent "

There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking musicians that traces its history back through decades. The members of this culture originated the term " independent ". The independents built the music industry on the internet. The independents made the way a search engine chases down money what it is today. The independents " run " the internet. The independents make the music industry in the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you an independent, you're an independent.
Granted, there's also another group of people who loudly call themselves independents, but aren't. These are the people who infiltrate our networks and get a kick out of hacking our systems in hopes to copy our ideas, and when they realize that they can't figure out how and why our codes are working, they use their money and political influences to establish laws in attempts to control it. Real independents call these people mainstream capitalist and want nothing to do with them. Real independents mostly think these people are snakes, lazy, irresponsible, " not very bright ", and object that being able to sell a million albums for .99 cent (in the digital format) doesn't make you an independent artist any more than setting up a web page to promote the album doesn't make you a Napster. Unfortunately, a lot of people who were in their teens when iTunes first hit the scene have been fooled into thinking that the artist who are "mainstream" today, are the ones who make the music industry on the internet what it is today.

The basic difference is this: Independents build things.....mainstream society/media destroys them!!!!!

If you want to be an independent, keep following independents. Here's a nice place to start for beginners who have put serious thought into their careers as artist, and what role the internet is to play in their advancement as artist in the next decade- http://www.indiefunda.com

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