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I think the attitude is that it's an act of civil disobedience when it's perceived to be stealing from a big corporation or business entity. When it's a little
by jakejake 11y ago
I think the attitude is that it's an act of civil disobedience when it's perceived to be stealing from a big corporation or business entity. When it's a little guy, then HN jumps to their defense. Well, unless the little guy is a musician, in which case, fuck them and their art which should be free. They need to figure out how to make money some other way.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoUsually it's not "fuck the musician", but "fuck the middlemen who take most of his money anyway".
- erdojo 11y agoImagine if iTunes (or Spotify etc.) allowed people to upload songs without a musician's permission and SELL them via iTunes.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 11y agoThis has happened before, and the content creators face the same struggle. The most egregious example that I know of is Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb, who claims that ITunes, Google, etc. have made over 6 figures from selling music that someone uploaded without his permission: https://torrentfreak.com/artist-cant-get-pirated-music-off-itunes-google-and-microsoft-stores-121016/ https://torrentfreak.com/artist-cant-get-pirated-music-off-i... It really sucked for Benn, who openly releases his own music on torrents and is active on What.cd, because he notes in his blog that he threw down 50 grand to hire an orchestra for the album that got stolen (Arboreal). Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, musicians do not earn the same sympathy as programmers for the same issue, at least not here on Hacker News.