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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Space__Horse and

      Having been on the other side of the debate, in hindsight it's very tiresome pretending not to know how this works for the one thing you care about even though it's applies in many, many situations It's the whole "Why do my taxes pay for a road I don't drive on" thing

      1 reply 2 retweets 49 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Space__Horse and

      People love to suggest that musicians stop charging money for records and instead make their money from live shows but by this logic they can't charge for live shows either After all, the cost of a show doesn't change based on how many people are physically in the audience

      1 reply 4 retweets 49 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Space__Horse and

      The cost of having the show is already sunk, right, now that they're already performing why shouldn't I be allowed to just sneak in to watch for free, it doesn't take anything from them materially

      1 reply 3 retweets 34 likes
    4. ACABeliever‏ @WenSchw 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Space__Horse and

      The big difference here is that musicians benefit directly from the show, whereas record companies (and book publishers) gobble up the vast majority of the profits from a record (or book). Shows are also easy to gatekeep. It's easily possible to prevent people from gatecrashing.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. ACABeliever‏ @WenSchw 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @WenSchw @arthur_affect and

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. ACABeliever‏ @WenSchw 30 Mar 2020
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. ACABeliever‏ @WenSchw 30 Mar 2020
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. ACABeliever‏ @WenSchw 30 Mar 2020
      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.

      4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @MatthewBorgard @WenSchw and

      All of the things people suggest creators do to monetize their work also constitute labor on top of making the thing in the first place, often significant amounts of labor Turning a song or a book into a video isn't free Designing T-shirts and posters isn't free

      1 reply 6 retweets 21 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MatthewBorgard and

      This is the key reason so many Kickstarters fail, the "Kickstarter death spiral" You try to get people to pledge by pushing bigger and more exciting rewards, but you underestimate the labor and cost of the rewards themselves

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @MatthewBorgard and

          You end up never coming out ahead, your workload grows faster than the money coming in offsets it After all the whole point of Kickstarter backer rewards is you're trying to "trick" them into paying more than the reward actually costs but people are resistant to being tricked

          1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @MatthewBorgard and

          Once the death spiral kicks in Kickstarter leaves many creators worse off than they started They had to dip into their personal budget to finish paying for some bullshit reward to keep backers from coming after them and have less money to do the thing they actually wanted to do

          1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
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