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Naindurth
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Well, this BIG earners, when do they have enough?
They "have enough" when people are no longer willing to give them money for what they do.
Nobody's holding a gun to the heads of the audience and forcing them to pay for something they don't want.
That's the essential point that's missing from the thinking of all the freetards - rich stars are rich because they produce something that's desirable to their audience - and evidently to the freetards as well or they wouldn't steal it.
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My own experience with Radiohead tells me it has a different potential, not a lesser one.
Radiohead was already big, okey, but If I hadn't downloaded In Rainbows I wouldn't have gone to the show, because the first track totally blew me away and they were coming. I had to go. I paid for their performance.
There could be thousands with this experience.
And Radiohead deemed the experiment a failure and will not be repeating it because of people like you who were not willing to pay even the cost of production.
It doesn't matter if you went to the live show. Live shows have their own cost of production and their own labor involved. How would you feel if you were expected to work 40 hours a week for 20 hours pay? Because that's what you're expecting artists to do with your "Oh I steal the record but it's OK because I go to the live show when it comes to town every 2 or 3 years" excuse.
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Free music is also difficult to put in practice because there are a few corporations that own the mass media, they will want a piece of everything, they're not going to play music they don't own.
No. Free music is impossible to put into practice because people must be paid for their labor or they can't do it. Unless you're willing to settle for the dabblings of amateurs.
You know, doctors make too much money - they should work for the joy of helping people and get real jobs flipping burgers or selling insurance to support themselves. But would you want to trust your health to an amateur doctor?
Would you want to live in a house built by an amateur carpenter and wired by an amateur electrician?
It takes a great deal of investment in time, energy, and capital to become a professional musician or audio engineer. Regardless of what the gear pimps tell you you just can't buy a couple of boxes and do it, it takes work. If people's work produces something that other people find desirable they deserve a fair compensation for that work.
A lot of people in the freetard contingent complain that most new music is crap. Well, you get what you pay for. If you don't put out the cash to support quality music, quality music goes away.