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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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    1. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and

      Sure, but I can also go and buy the track directly from the artist to support them. Do I need to go and photograph the actual CDs I have from these artists to prove that the model works? I don't know what you're trying to argue, here. You claim that no other model works.

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and

      I claim that this model works less well for most artists than the model we had before, and the takes you can find arguing that the Internet and the sharing economy was going to be a brave new world of freely spread wealth are from the mid-2000s before this turned out not to work

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      What I claim is, I think, fairly easily observable -- traditional publishing has been slowly caving in and leaving a ton of creative people out of work And the Internet revolution we were promised would replace it makes it really, really hard to make money

      2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      Like I hate to break it to you but most "Internet people" are really fucking poor You don't realize -- even *famous* Internet people are just making what in the pre-Internet era was a middle-class living for someone with their analogous job

      1 reply 0 retweets 24 likes
    5. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and

      I'm aware. It's why, when I'm working, I support those artists and creators who make content I like. But I'm also not sure what point you're trying to make. Most people are doing badly right now, but that's a whole other problem.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @phyphor @arthur_affect and

      But, again, people are able to make a living doing their passion, making art, and getting paid for it. How is that a broken system? How is the fact that people can find a niche and fill out a bad thing?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and

      The presence of *somebody somewhere* making money isn't an argument that a system is just fine Like if it were then everything would be just fine -- tipped waitstaff would be fine, Uber drivers would be fine

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      There is observable relative movement of where the money is going in the "art economy" and it's both going down in total and a greater proportion is going toward the top "Mid-level" creators in every industry are being rapidly killed off

      2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      I mean sure this is a subset of what's happening to the whole economy -- the middle class is vanishing, corporations are posting record stock prices while everyone struggles to get paid I posit that's because it's one general phenomenon -- the price of labor diving toward zero

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      The role of Big Tech in "disintermediating" against "rent-seekers", the ethos of "I can always find someone to do what you do for slightly cheaper, until the price reaches the lowest level it possibly can", the whole Uber/Fiverr/AirBNB phenomenon

      1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      And I don't get how people don't see the conversation about IP and piracy as the *same conversation* "Well, the price point you have to compete with is $0 All you're actually charging for is the convenience of not having to look for a torrent"

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        2. Nathaniel Downes‏ @downix 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          Pirate sites often times include fishing tricks and trackers, enabling third parties to gain access to your data.

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        3. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @downix @arthur_affect and

          Do you realise that most websites track your usage with ads? And then sell that data?

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        2. decoy  🧡‏ @decoy_orange 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          The whole system is designed to "force" you to pay the IP holders for access to the content. An alternative would be making it easier to voluntarily pay the creators for it and taking a small cut for your usefulness.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @decoy_orange @arthur_affect and

          Which is the Patreon model I suggested above. Or paying artists directly for, say physical media even if you can get the digital version for as good as free. The other model I suggested.

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        2. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and

          People want to pay for art they like. That remains true. And it's how people with Patreon and large, niche, fanbases work. Sci Show is free to watch on YouTube, and yet it has Patreons.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and

          People *want* to pay for art they *like*, but in the old days they *had* to pay for art they were merely curious enough to take a look at (And then the ones who actually were fans and really liked it paid more)

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