Edited sentence: Services may evolve to allow musicians to sell their music via the web without the need for a record company in its present form and consequently reap a fairer share of the profits from their music.Tensions arise largely from the low amounts of total sales that the artists receive.The recording industry is able to pay exploitatively low percentages as all the record companies pay artists very similar amounts.Therefore if an artist wants to release their music there is no viable alternative other than to sign away their music to these organizations.This might eventually change in the future with the advent of web based music sales