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What? You are massively uninformed about the music business. You are ignoring everything from copyright laws, mandatory licensing, agents, gross vs. net point c
by zedshaw 14y ago
What? You are massively uninformed about the music business. You are ignoring everything from copyright laws, mandatory licensing, agents, gross vs. net point compensation, musician's unions, the producer's role in it all, and seem to only be focusing on the studio musicians who take a paycheck rather than points on an album.
Your entire comment shows you know nothing about the music business other than the little bit of pro-piracy drivel you've been fed over the internet. I am a musician and an author with real contracts that I've signed who's had to take classes and talk to lawyers about this subject, so I know what I'm talking about. You do not.
- tptacek 14y agoYou've taken exactly the opposite point from my comment that I intended. Developers get salary and benefits. Musicians do not. I am, for whatever it's worth, vocally anti- piracy, and though I'm not a musician, I come from an immediate family of them. If you wrote a top-level comment about how the music business was different from the software business, and included details like typical contract terms, that comment would head up this thread instead of Patrick's and my own. But I submit to you that it would reach basically the same point as my comment, which is that songwriters and recording artists get royalties because they bear risks; developers tend not to get royalties because they are paid up-front. [edited]