[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Christian Hufgard]

> In the links I gave you it is stated that the band gets about 90% of the
> money made on live concerts. It's also stated that the average ticket
> costs
> about 67€. So you say 20.000 people? That's 20.000*0.9*67=1.2 million
> euros.
> They are soooo poor....

And theses 90% are used to pay agents and productions costs. :)

> I won't answer the W-Lan question without my lawyer :P


:)

> About the computer, well, the computer is about 5 years old and it costed
> me
> about 1000 euros, taking into account that I download 300Mbytes in about 2
> mins with my 2.5 Mbytes per sec connection, that amounts to
> 2/(5*360*24*60)=7*10^-7 euros, so add that to the 0.185 cents and still
> you won't have pai 0.2 cents.
>
> Yes, I pay the marginal costs, but that's very different from buying a new
> car, or the whole discography.

Of course. But as soon as many people would pay a Cent for each download,
musicians would have much more money - to spend for new music.


> The problem with the industry of music is the industry itself: it's not
> necessary, it's obsolete. Music will be created and played live, with or
> without the music industry. And if all the present famous artistss top
> producing records, they will be replaced by a new wave of presently
> unknown
> artists (me and my friends for example). So I wouldn't care too much about
> that.

Yeah, but this way you'll have more amateurs and less professional
musicians and no more money for newcomers. The market would be different.
:)



>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > That's true in europe, since only about 2 years ago. Before that, we
>> only
>> > paid for buying the books, then everyone could read them for free
>> (well,
>> a
>> > marginal cost indeed).
>>
>> But once again, a cost that was paied.
>>
>
> Of course, because I wouldn't steal a book physically, because if I did,
> those who had the book would take a gap in exchange. But when I download a
> song, I'm not creating any gap, in the same way that when someone tells me
> an idea they still have the idea, even when they have given the idea to
> me.


I use this argument myself lot of times. But I think, that it is not only
the missing gap. You were educated not to steal and you know, that there
is a pretty good chance to get caught and punished.

Christian