[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Christian Hufgard]

Félix Robles wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Christian Hufgard
> <pp at christian-hufgard.de
>> wrote:
>
>> > And you are wrong, it's crosspromoting live concerts with music
>> recordings
>> > that does not pay off - unless you are "at the top of the charts".
>> Only
>> > very famous and already rich musicians earn a considerable part of
>> their
>> > money from records, 99% of musicians live out of live concerts.
>>
>> Can you give and evidence to that figures? Or do you just guess them,
>> because they proof the way to consume music?
>>
>
> I won't give any evidence to those figures, but they are true and you know
> it.

Sorry, that's no way to discuss. "My arguments are true and I do not have
to proof them" does not work.


> Can your car be copied with zero cost? Is your car a cultural product?

Well, I would say, that a car is a product of our culture. And a audio
file is not copied with zero cost. Or do you get the hardware for free?
The internet access?


>>> I am just freely accessing to culture.
>>
>> And the way you do it, you make it pretty less interesting for artists
>> to
>> "produce" new "culture".
>>
>> That's why there was no music before copyright was invented, I suppose?

Come on. You can do this better. Do you really see no difference beetween
a shepherd playing flute and beethoven or madonna?


>> You're a pretty noble guy. I think every artist should be really really
>> glad, if you listen to his music. So do you regulary visit concerts? Or
>> are you just a cultural parasite, consuming what others peoples pay for?
>>
>
> So when I go to the public library and pay 0 cents for reading a book I'm
> a cultural parasite too?

Libraries pay for the books and pay for loaning them. They are funded by
tax. Just because you do not pay directly, that does not mean, that you
pay nothing.


Christian