Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

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Basically, student don't appreciate the effort going into music/videos

Their world is focussed on their own wants and desires, rather those those with whom they do not share much thinking-wise.

It is only after having to appreciate the value of their own efforts that values change and respect for what others spend of their time and money grows. In other words, they grow out of it.

Unfortunately, the major media producers, especially music, have abused their artists and so their 'anguish' about lost artist income seems like 'crocodile tears'. With their guilt, they seem to be reticent to explain the full accounting that goes on behind the few hits and the great, great many losses. Read 'Confessions of a Record Producer' by Moses Avalon for a much better insight into the music business mechanations.

The fact is, to make our CD on our own, it took us 100s of hours and $1000s of dollars, and we did not have the $50k budget to market it, so we still have most of the first batch left, despite getting a few sold into the biggest music/viseo retailer in Australia.
On CD Baby, we are just one of too many. We cannot do live gigs, so are limited in the evenues for promotion. Therefore, talk of 'music should be free' rings rather hollow and sounds more like lack of respect and laziness of thought.

If a student can make rough music and be happy with it, the added costs of making music for wider circulation do not gel with them.

Different realities mean that students are in their own world, and will not change until they have to make it in the wider world. Therefore, there will always be a subclass that wants free. The problem occurs when such thinking endures beyond the enclaves of learning and clouds the reasoning towards others. Then selfishness rules and others suffer.

Posted by: Patanjali   Posted on: 08/03/09  (Edited: 08/03/2009 @ 05:19) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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