He generated massive support against IA. He and his blue check mark clown friends. No one gave Metallica a pass going after Napster. This is the same thing. The IA does an important service to many and Chuck Wendig was a major voice in trying to bring it down even if not the 1st
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Metallica actually sued Napster and won Chuck Wendig didn't do anything but post a tweet that happened to go viral (he is very far from the first famous person to say something about this) So no, this is not a fair comparison
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Metallica sued Napster, lost half their fanbase and spent 20 years trying to rebuild their reputation. Lars is still universally disliked and file sharing is more prevalent than it ever was while the musicians finally realized pirates weren't the issue it was their record company
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Yeah the narrative that fans are all extremely generous souls who *want* to give you lots of money but the evil publisher was always standing in their way preventing them is very popular with fans Less so with artists
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Is that why artists have been increasingly successful on indiegogo, kickstarter, patreon and independent labels? Just because some authors assume people would be buying their books on droves it not for pirates doesn't make it so. If people really like your work, they support.
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Haven't what? Supported you and your work? Your friends work? If that's the case I hate to break it to you but instead of blaming pirates maybe your work wasn't good enough to make some ok me go out of their way to support you.
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If you're talking about the independent scene then how can you explain indiegogo campaigns or things like CyberFrog? How do you explain musical acts directly distributing through streaming and seeing more revenue without their labels taking a cut?
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"How can working for tips be an awful way to make a living when I know this one bartender in San Francisco who bought a Mercedes off his tips one year Maybe all the other waitstaff complaining should just git gud"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Not every NBA player is LeBron James. It might suck to hear but not every professional is going to create works that appeal to a mass audience. It isn't the same as git gud, but don't pretend like just because someone works hard at art, that they're going to get an audience.
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There is no profession in our capitalist world where you don't hustle and grind but the less of an expectation an industry has for a baseline required compensation for labor the worse that grind becomes
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Like, shit, imagine if NBA teams didn't actually pay their players salaries and instead they had to raise money directly from their fans with an NBA Patreon LeBron James would still be rich as fuck but all the random "no-name" players made nothing
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Could the NBA even exist under those conditions? Would you be able to fill up a team roster? Would it be "worth it" if this business model meant you no longer had to charge money for tickets and the games themselves were now more "accessible" to fans
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