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Originally Posted by John Eppstein  Wrong. You're talking about my income - specifically not paying me for my work.
If you did this crap in person you'd wake up in the hospital. But you don't, because you can hide behind the internet. |
Are you...threatening to physically harm me because of my opinion?
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Originally Posted by John Eppstein And goods that are stolen are free. I HATE using the word "stolen", but you force me into it.
Stolen goods are only profitable to thieves.
If a commodity is continually stolen until those who produce it can no longer stay in business it will cease to be available.
That's the future of music if those of your wont prevail. The only music left will be low quality, amateurish (in the worst sense of the word) crap. |
How is this contrary to what I've been saying? It's actually exactly what I've been saying.
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A bicycle is the product of work. A song is the product of work - often much more than what goes into a bicycle if it's a good song.
Are you telling me that my work as a songwriter, musician and engineer is not worth anything, while the work of some guy with basic welding skills is? Are you REALLY gonna say that? Come tell me that in person, I dare you.
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If you'd kindly take the time to actually read my posts instead of descending into a barbaric fervor caused by spending way too much time in this section, you might be able to extrapolate the fact that I am a person who supports artists I like by buying their material, and that I think those who pirate their "beloved" groups are complete hypocrites.
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Going back to the dairy analogy.
It's absolutely a fact that supermarkets wedge dairies into selling their milk too cheaply. In many cases the farmer either barely breaks even or loses money.
Farmers sell up and move on, now some milk products come in from China.
A pint of milk is a loss leader for the store. They get you in the shop with their unrealistically cheap milk (yes... a necessity), then fill your nostrils with bakery smells, enticing you to pick up an expensive croissant or donut.
So to cut a long story short, people don't really care if dairy farmers go broke because of supermarket price pressures. They just don't want to pay the real price that milk costs to produce.
They don't want to pay the real price music costs to produce, they'd rather have it free.
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If dairy farmers could not afford to continue to produce and sell milk, be it to customers or markets, then...wouldn't there be no dairy?