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yes, piracy is good. if you think artists should be paid give them money directly, or go to shows and buy merch. nearly all intellectual property barriers mak
by door 9y ago
yes, piracy is good.
if you think artists should be paid give them money directly, or go to shows and buy merch.
nearly all intellectual property barriers make no sense in a post-internet world. we effectively live in a world without intellectual property barriers (because piracy is easy and prolific) but for some reason people refuse to acknowledge the free and open flow of art and information as a good thing.
- coldtea 9y ago>if you think artists should be paid give them money directly, or go to shows and buy merch. Would you say that for your work too? Or it's because conveniently it's not that easily copyable?
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoThat's because there's no such thing as the free and open flow of art if there's little or no art - or at least high quality art - being made, because creators aren't being rewarded. It's odd how rarely there's no apparent understanding that the flow needs to go both ways - and if it doesn't go both ways, there is no flow.
- FeepingCreature 9y agoI have an unusual perspective on this because 90% of the music I listen to is remixes and 90% of the literature I read is fanfiction. Which are works of art where a good fraction of the work is done by unpaid amateurs who are at risk of being sued by the "original artists" (or rather their labels/publishers). The point is, from that perspective, copyright is an existential threat to a very large fraction of the art I consume.
- door 9y agoThen come up with business models that make sense in a post-internet world rather than trying to fight piracy (an unwinnable and unethical battle) artists deserve to be paid, but that payment should not be at the expense of unethical restriction of the free flow of art, culture and information. give money to artists you support if you think they deserve it. we currently live in a world where piracy is the NORM. Most artists/musicians get started on pirated software. much of hip hop is based on illegal / unauthorized sampling. meme culture and remix culture is based largely on copyright infringement. nearly everyone has googled "watch [tv show] for free" and gone to some streaming website. all of these things are GOOD, and people should acknowledge them as so. piracy should be normalized and encouraged. like, the current world we live in is one where payment for intellectual property is totally voluntary. why pretend that paying $10 for an album is anything but a donation, and move straight to a patronage-type relationship where you just fund the artist directly?
- bborud 9y agoIf artists don't get paid directly by sales to consumers absolutely nothing bad will happen. Society will have an abundance of artistic output and artists will find ways to monetise their art anyway. Don't pretend otherwise. Sure, some middle layers become obsolete, but the point of art wasn't to provide food for its one time symbiotic parasites.