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Originally posted by apushforenlightment
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
reply to post by apushforenlightment
2% lol. From my point of view I hope you love your work and would do it even if you weren't paid. If you don't then you should probably look for another job. Piracy is probably a thing you are were angry about and you are making a nice friendly view of your situation. But the producers getting 90% is really increadable for me. Does he spend 45 times more time working on the movie than you do?
You--LOL.
The producer puts forth the MONEY to produce it in its final format. Not chump change. If it fails, who is left with nothing? The producers. The artist is free to produce it him/herself, but probably can't afford to. The producer, therefore, fills the need.
With big risk comes big payoff.
Also, the artist is free to negotiate a better rate than 2%. It may not happen, but the negotiation process IS there.
You may not like it, but that's the way it is in the real world.
Why is the "real world" like that? And it seem that China don't care. You have one view of what is right and I have another. The question is who have the moral highground? I say "service to all by all" is the way religons teach and "service by all to one/few/ego" is the path that should not be walked but is walked frequently by the systems we have made. Namaste
Originally posted by ErtaiNaGia
(Second Line.)
Originally posted by apushforenlightment
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
Originally posted by apushforenlightment
Originally posted by PaxVeritas
In fact I have a suggestion for all the 'works should be free' folks.
Go MAKE something that takes a year or two, then release it for FREE online. A digital product specifically.
And then release all copyright to it, all distributions rights, all claim of ownership or authorship, and legal ties.
And then tell me if you would do it again.
Get busy.edit on 17-11-2011 by PaxVeritas because: (no reason given)
If you don't like what you do in life and would not do it for free then you should probably do something else. The digital revolution will continue and maybe we will see a backlash in the collecting on money for the artists to more resonable limits even in the extreme cases. My answer to you is spotify or a similar product. Free for the user if he don't wanna pay but you are payed. The problem is that the industry is lagging behind and don't really wanna get into 21 century.
Is it realistic to expect that someone else should be willing to do what they want to do for FREE?
Nope, but there's that entitlement mentality of yours again.
"Didn't you have so much fun making it that you don't mind giving it to me???"
I've got some things you can come to my house to do for free. Let me know when you are available.
It's all money or ego for you aint it? Have fun with that. If you have the idee that you are entitled to more than the people around you then im glad I don't ever will meet you. Namaste
Originally posted by Phenomium
reply to post by GeorgiaGirl
Ever heard "two wrongs don't make a right?"
You ARE overly justifying your poor moral decisions. Hopefully someday you will realize you are wrong. Until then, you just sound like you are whining, like a toddler. "But I WANT ice cream, Mommy!"
One wrong and one right doesn't make a right either,...what's your point?
Clever "one-liners" might sound like wisdom, but they are really wis-DUM, because they don't apply to reality.
As for the rest of your statement, it wreaks of someone who doesn't have an intelligent retort. It is simply a child-like attempt to hit below the belt and it only shows ignorance. I hope you don't intellectually represent everyone from Georgia. If so, it's a testament as to why the rest of the world questions the intelligencia of America as a whole. Good job representing.
Originally posted by Phenomium
Originally posted by apushforenlightment
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
reply to post by apushforenlightment
2% lol. From my point of view I hope you love your work and would do it even if you weren't paid. If you don't then you should probably look for another job. Piracy is probably a thing you are were angry about and you are making a nice friendly view of your situation. But the producers getting 90% is really increadable for me. Does he spend 45 times more time working on the movie than you do?
You--LOL.
The producer puts forth the MONEY to produce it in its final format. Not chump change. If it fails, who is left with nothing? The producers. The artist is free to produce it him/herself, but probably can't afford to. The producer, therefore, fills the need.
With big risk comes big payoff.
Also, the artist is free to negotiate a better rate than 2%. It may not happen, but the negotiation process IS there.
You may not like it, but that's the way it is in the real world.
Why is the "real world" like that? And it seem that China don't care. You have one view of what is right and I have another. The question is who have the moral highground? I say "service to all by all" is the way religons teach and "service by all to one/few/ego" is the path that should not be walked but is walked frequently by the systems we have made. Namaste
This girl makes no sense at all and (service to all, by all) is a fairytale that never worked and never will and is not a concept by India...it's socialism. THE FINGER.
will have less job security because when you stop selling as much of a product as you forecast you will end up losing out on that revenue and so can't pay all of the above charges.
Originally posted by ErtaiNaGia
reply to post by Marid Audran
will have less job security because when you stop selling as much of a product as you forecast you will end up losing out on that revenue and so can't pay all of the above charges.
Is society obligated to make sure they succeed as a business?
They are too big to fail, is that what you are saying?
When did this attitude become acceptable? "I'll break the law because I don't agree with the law
and you can't stop me...and if you want to stop me, it must be because YOU are greedy or don't love your job, and hey, man, you should just be glad to do your work for FREE, and if not, well, see, I was right, you are greedy."
what you are saying is that theft is fine if the item happens to be intellectual property and not actual physical property?
Theft(Noun): The action or crime of stealing.
Stealing(Verb): Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
What you are advocating is the complete abrogation of property rights in intellectual property and nearly of business as it is conducted today.
Your fool ideas would, in fact, cripple the entire world economy and destroy any innovation at all.
Why would a pharmaceutical company invent a life-saving drug, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to do it, if the digital file holding the recipe or the manufacturing process is not legally protected from theft?