It looks like I was relying on old information. It was from an article about Anshe Chung, the Second Life millionaire character of Ailin Graef. Other (more recent) articles indicate that in 2007, About 50k accounts were better than break-even profitable on a monthly basis.
You can put your music recording on both iTunes and Spotify, or neither. Or BandCamp and SoundCloud and your own CDs. If you don't like the terms of service, you can distribute your stuff by other channels.
When you're producing content in SL, for SL, it's like you're writing sheet music for the Gronxophone, which is a trademarked, patented instrument that only one person on Earth can play. If you don't like the terms, tough.
So, out of $11k, they make $1k. That's the kind of money they need to make between once and three times a month minimum depending on where they live. Doesn't Amazon notice patterns in terms of source, scripts which are uploaded and scaling profile: Who uses 2 medium instances for a year then spins off 2,000 in 20 minutes?
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