It's entirely possible to limit the number of people who go to a show, it's not easy to sneak in. It's not possible to prevent people from downloading a PDF of a book or an MP3 of a record. This is why you change your business model instead of futilely trying to stop this.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
Book publishers generally charge far less for an e-book than the physical copy, record companies put music for "free" on YouTube and Spotify. They found that video game piracy dropped to very low levels when video games started being sold online for cheaper than physical copies.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
"Piracy" isn't a theft issue, nor is it a moral issue. It's a market issue where it's very easy to distribute free copies of something that used to cost a lot of money, and those who once controlled the market not being able to keep up with the realities of this new system.
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Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and
You want to prevent people from downloading PDFs of your book or MP3s of your record? Male it easy for them to get, at a cheap price. Set up a merch store and build loyalty with potential fans through online interactions. Post music videos or book reading videos on YouTube.
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Replying to @WenSchw @Space__Horse and
I have heard this spiel before, hell I used to deliver this spiel in college The fact of the matter is that these very low prices ARE NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO PAY FOR CREATORS TO MAKE A LIVING The brave new world is a FAILURE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
Lots of people have tried this shit, lots of them have failed, and if you look at industry statistics the percentage of people making a decent living as "content creators" has likely gone down - WAY down - since the 90s and the days of those awful bloated album prices
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
The Brave New World argument for why the Internet would make artists' lives better instead of worse rested on two basic falsehoods: 1) That most of the cost of selling IP on a physical medium was the physical platform itself (this was never true)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
2) That most of the ceiling on sales was the limitations of the physical platform (also blatantly false)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
There is no good reason that digital copies should be cheaper than physical copies The cost of the actual paper, plastic CD or DVD was always on the order of a dollar or less The price was always you paying your share of the upfront labor cost of writing the book
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
The argument seems to be that back when they were selling albums for $20, this put a cap on the number of people who would listen to the album, and there were lots of people who WOULD like to listen to it for, say, $2 but couldn't (the price discrimination argument)
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This is pretty likely to be false Everyone has only so many hours in a day and only so much energy to pay attention to things, price was never the limiting factor on anything People who torrent all the shit they want for free still don't actually consume most of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
The evidence is that the number of FANS of even the most popular artists has the SAME ceiling it did in 1995, but those people just pay less - a LOT less - for their music consumption habit now, and so artists, bluntly, have less money
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WenSchw and
The real thing here is using a credit card to buy something online is just more onerous on the consumer than even using a credit card to buy something in person
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