I agree with Turnaround.

Most of us freely put our music on MySpace with the understanding that we weren't getting paid in exchange. We wanted the exposure to their user base (which, by the way, totally dwarfs the musicians on MySpaceby orders of magnitude). We KNEW this. And we're not in a position to renegotiate. The major labels are, because their artists drive WAY more traffic than indies.

It reminds me of Billy Bragg's last speech. He was pissed off that Bebo got sold for millions but the musicians there didn't get a cent. Hey, them's the breaks. Like Turnaround said: don't put your stuff there if you want paid for it.

And the more I think about it, I really don't agree with the idea that "indies built MySpace." Musicians are just a very small fraction of MySpace users. The vast majority of users are regular everyday people, and they're probably spending more time on their own profiles than anything else.

At this point I've gotten WAY more value out of MySpace than they have of me.

Now, all that said: I wouldn't be surprised if IODA and CD Baby are allowed to participate in distributing rev-share money to indies. But I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't, either.