Sam,

You know it gets a little tiring to listen to a bunch of people always tell me what I am saying. Are you in the music business? Have you sold product? Have you had to deal with distributors, critiques, record labels, publishing, deadlines, A&R people, mainstream radio, political nature of a very fickle business? Well I do.
People in the industry continually hear people outside the business talk about things they have very little dealings with. I don't know you. You have your opinions. I made no aspersions on Dave whomever. I thought it was very cool and applaud his tirade against the airline industry and his inventivness. I am happy he is getting attention.
I am making a comment that very few people are actually making money.There are thousands of people that post videos every day. It is a great deal of difference in getting some attention for a very short period and making real money or having longevity in a buiness that caters to people who's attention spans don't remember what was going on thirty minutes ago, much less what was happening a few weeks ago.
There is one major way to make money in the music industry. That is through mainstream radio success. If that were not true, major labels, would not spend most of their budgets trying to get people on mainstream radio. It is the only way to have longevity (which for this day and age, your friend might have had about the longest run he is going to have.)
I wish anyone well who is trying to do this. I am only trying to point out some elemental truths. One of them is that we are dealing in a generation of people that think all music, all books, all magazines, all entertainment, should be free. Money is now dissapated through a HUGE amount of people all doing the same thing.
And you can deride me all you want to. The real world is different. It is about product sales. And getting press in a flash and then dissapearing does not always translate into sales. I hope this guy does well. I really do. But you have to look at the whole picture. Just because you don't like that picture, doesn't mean you can ignore it.

MAB