I think that the new technologies make a lot of people a lot of money, including creators and producers and anyone who profits from the use that consumers make of the new technologies. In this case before us, the consumer continues to pay to have access to the material. The consumer pays money to buy a song directly in the store in the same way as he does to obtain a file. Today, when he logs on and accesses the songs, he pays, he always pays, but the money does not necessarily go to the artist.
In the case of Mr. Bieber, I am not familiar with the detailed list of the songwriters who write his material, but they are not the stars. It's Mr. Bieber who is famous. If I write songs for him at my home, what good does it do me that he is a star? If the songs are played on the radio, I am going to get royalties. If a song appears in a video, I am going to get royalties.
If people copy the files on the Internet, I get nothing. Someone makes a lot of money selling bandwidth, implying that the money does not go back to the creators.