[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Félix Robles]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Christian Hufgard
<pp at christian-hufgard.de>wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> >> And you really believe, that visiting a single concert can fully
> >> compensate downloading the whole discography?
> >
> > The term "compensate" refers to making up for a loss that you caused.
> > Also, by extension, it refers to pay people who do work for you (your
> > employees and contractors).
>
> If somebody says "instead of buying copies of music, I visit the
> concerts", "compensate" is the right word, I tink.
>


Compensate is not the right word. I may have more than 50Gb of music and
hundreds of artists, but I've only seen live a veery small fraction of them,
so I'm not saying that I visit the concerts of every band I listen to. I
just say that they shouldn't hope to make money on records, the money
normally comes from live concerts. Records should be thought as a means of
promotion: if you're lucky enough to make money out of records, good for
you, but you should be happy if people listens to your records for free.

Basically, what you are saying is that if someone says "instead of paying
for listening to ads, I buy the product", then "compensate" is the right
word.



> > When people share copies, it does take anything away from anyone, so
> > there is no loss.  Also, the artists are not doing work specifically
> > for these people.  So there is no occasion to "compensate" anyone.
>
> Technically not. But you use something without compensating the creator.
> What would you say, if someone uses your code without releasing the new
> software under GPL again? You have no loss in money, there ist just less
> free code than if he had released it under GPL again.
>
> If you modify a GPL software and you don't release the code nor the
executable,  to anyone but you, that's fine under the GPL license. This is
similar to an artirst that creates a version of a song but doesn't release
to anyone. In that case the one "losing money" is the author that modifies
the song: no one is listening to it.

Felix Robles
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