Hi, creator here, I license all my music under Creative Commons BY because I don’t agree with the concept of copyright and want people to freely use and enjoy my music. I also don’t really “sell” my work, I just ask for a suggested donation. I’d argue a lot of artists have a similar desire for their work to be spread as far as possible, and shared with as many as possible. Most of the actual money in the music industry goes to corpo suits who specifically want to restrict the ability for people to interact with my music, so they can enrich themselves. In the U.S. at least, that seems to be the norm of the “art industry.” Greedy executives making huge bucks profiting off the work of creatives, while those creatives rarely see the same profits.
Oh obviously what this post is about is a gross overreach and devastating to a young life for no reason at all. As a creator I have mulled this. Did I care if people ever snuck into any of my bands shows? No, but we were never famous. Would I care if people pirated the game I’m attempting to make? Once again, I’m not famous or selling anything to the tune of hundreds of thousands, and, I dont care, again. If people are listening to my music, or playing my game, or in anyway just enjoying things I made, I think I could live with that. Its not about the money, its about burring yourself in the collective zeitgeist for ages to come.
I do kind of agree, as I’m making art for myself. But at the same time, maybe that’s because I’m not in a situation where I depend on having to sell what I’m creating is what I mean
Thats fine, I am not either. But popular shit is the biggest target of pirating. Searching, I found one (1) game, an iOS game, that shutdown supposedly due to pirating. Here is the stack exchange. In the end it was actually due to a technical bug revealed because of the pirated accounts. So yeah, it has been a problem at least once before. But the frequency and depth of the affects seems greatly exaggerated.
People need to stop seeing everything in black and white and put themselves in other’s shoes. I’m not siding with anyone. I buy and I don’t.
But if you were the creator, what would you think about your reasoning?
(now about the title story of this post, this is obviously madness, things gone too far)
Hi, creator here, I license all my music under Creative Commons BY because I don’t agree with the concept of copyright and want people to freely use and enjoy my music. I also don’t really “sell” my work, I just ask for a suggested donation. I’d argue a lot of artists have a similar desire for their work to be spread as far as possible, and shared with as many as possible. Most of the actual money in the music industry goes to corpo suits who specifically want to restrict the ability for people to interact with my music, so they can enrich themselves. In the U.S. at least, that seems to be the norm of the “art industry.” Greedy executives making huge bucks profiting off the work of creatives, while those creatives rarely see the same profits.
Oh obviously what this post is about is a gross overreach and devastating to a young life for no reason at all. As a creator I have mulled this. Did I care if people ever snuck into any of my bands shows? No, but we were never famous. Would I care if people pirated the game I’m attempting to make? Once again, I’m not famous or selling anything to the tune of hundreds of thousands, and, I dont care, again. If people are listening to my music, or playing my game, or in anyway just enjoying things I made, I think I could live with that. Its not about the money, its about burring yourself in the collective zeitgeist for ages to come.
I do kind of agree, as I’m making art for myself. But at the same time, maybe that’s because I’m not in a situation where I depend on having to sell what I’m creating is what I mean
Thats fine, I am not either. But popular shit is the biggest target of pirating. Searching, I found one (1) game, an iOS game, that shutdown supposedly due to pirating. Here is the stack exchange. In the end it was actually due to a technical bug revealed because of the pirated accounts. So yeah, it has been a problem at least once before. But the frequency and depth of the affects seems greatly exaggerated.