While the Recording Racket works on ways to sell you "secure" downloads that
you can only do what they want you to with, unsigned bands are
finding their own
ways to make money online, whilst retaining their independence and their
copyrights.
"I don't have an answer for why this happened," said Quirk. "If it was that people just wanted the record that second it would be one thing, but the fact that people are donating more than they need to must mean there is something else going on.
Now Jay and I own this record forever because the people who are going to buy the album have kept us from giving away our rights."