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Originally Posted by Sue K
Go to work this week ... come Friday and your boss says, no pay this week... I decided just to use you for the work and maybe I'll do the same next week ... You'd demand pay or quit ... Imagine if all musicians did the same... QUIT... NO MORE MUSIC... FREE OR OTHERWISE ... yeah ...
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Weak example. That is something that I can file with the labour board and have resolved. If my boss doesn't pay up that he goes to jail.
What recourse do the people I'm downloading off have? Not a damn thing. Making art is not work.
Sorry to be blunt about it, but it's a very weak and far reaching example.
Saying that musicians would quit is like saying a hooker would stop having sex because nobodies paying for it anymore.
They would quit playing? And never play any shows? Or put anything on youtube? Or create something on Garageband and distribute it in the internet to see how people like it? Just because they're not being paid?
Sure.
In fact many will operate AT A LOSS because they love it so much.... like me.