Munin -> RE: The advent of Spotify and the demise of ‘records’ as product [continuing on Ricardo’s comment] (Feb. 24 2013 9:36:08)
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It's a rough world out there. If you're going to start blaming others for your hardships you're not gonna get very far. Ok I'm convinced, corporate greed is a good thing. When it comes for me I will smile and hand it the vaseline, as I'm sure you will. We can just keep changing occupations every time it comes to pick the bones clean; that is until there aren't any left. The important thing is, people should shut up and not whine about. quote:
Society isn't a charity that is obliged to support professions that would otherwise die out. What about corporations that make big money off these charity cases, does that make them charities? I'm all for society not being obliged to support them[:D] Stop overreacting. Nobody here is a corporate shill, and not all new technologies are evil creations by greedy suits. If you want to stick your fingers in your ears, go "LA LA LA" and close your eyes from reality, be my guest. Prepare to be forced to do that a lot in the upcoming years though. quote:
Prove it. I will be the judge and pay accordingly. So who are you to judge this? Every individual in society makes that judgment by either paying or not paying chester for what he does, whatever that is. If nobody thinks he should be paid for what he does, it's the people's fault then? If I really love folding paper cranes and have put in 20,000 hours of my life folding really awesome paper cranes, do you think I should automatically receive money for that without question? Where do you draw the line? What I do agree with is that people who are already enjoying someone else's creation which was meant to be sold should acquire it in a legal fashion. As I explained in the beginning, Spotify's model isn't ideal but it's how the future is going to look. If you don't like your album on there, pull it off. And if there are people who want to pay for it, they still will. And a good part of the people who don't may not have done so in the first place. Equating a pirated or Spotify-ed copy to a lost sale is quite a superficial conclusion. quote:
No, implication was that being an artist is "fun" not "hard work" No, the implication was that being an artist is hard work, but that is also the case for a lot of other professions and it's quite arrogant to state other professions involve sitting in an office, "pushing some buttons" and watching the money roll in while being a musician consists of this romantic yet thankless struggle to follow your passions. Musicians are part of our society and economy and are hence subject to the same supply and demand as everyone else. In an ideal world there'd be enough money going around for everyone to freely follow their hearts doing whatever their love. Unfortunately that's not how it works. So why should artists be exempted from this? Just because they're "artists"? Again, where do you draw the line then?
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