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> Until the 19th century, you would pay to watch a theatrical or listen to live music because it was the only fair price available. Actually, no. Locals often
by anamax 16y ago
> Until the 19th century, you would pay to watch a theatrical or listen to live music because it was the only fair price available.
Actually, no. Locals often performed for free. It was part of the whole community thing.
> you wanted a picture of yourself, you had to pay Renoir to make an original portrait.
Or, you did it yourself. Or your a member of your family or a neighbor did it.
Drawing used to done by far more people.
- ignifero 16y agowhat if you wanted to listen to mozart himself or have an original renoir? my point is you couldn't buy a copy
- waqf 16y agoThen you were a snob and you deserved the markup. Just as today if you want your coffee beans personally picked by Howard Schultz it'll cost you more than most people think of as "a reasonable price for coffee".
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- ignifero 16y agook let me rephrase: even if you wanted to buy a reasonable copy of a renoir, the price you paid corresponded to man-hours of labour. It was a compensation for something.
- GFischer 16y agoThat's why there are so many parallelisms to Gutenberg's revolutionary invention and the modern age, for instance: http://www.amazon.com/Piracy-Intellectual-Property-Gutenberg-Gates/dp/0226401189 http://www.amazon.com/Piracy-Intellectual-Property-Gutenberg...
- anamax 16y ago> what if you wanted to listen to mozart himself or have an original renoir? Then you did as you have to do today - you went to the source. Thanks to amplification, more people can hear Bruce Springsteen live than could hear Mozart. > my point is you couldn't buy a copy That's true, but that's not your original claim or the claim above. Your original claim was that you had to pay. That claim was wrong.
- stretchwithme 16y agoyeah, there's been a huge shift from everybody being a producer to most just consuming art. The minority that still produce probably understand what a loss this is better than most.