<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Félix Robles wrote:<br>
> Do you mean that music engineers and producers work for free at first and<br>
> are only paid after they start to sell copies of the album? I don't think<br>
> so.<br>
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</div>No. But they do not get paied anymore, if people stop buying copies of<br>
music. Crosspromoting music recordings with live converts does not pay off<br>
- unless you are at the top of the charts.<br></blockquote><div><br>And you are "at the top of the charts" (and with that I mean being a famous musician, not one that sells many albums) if everyone listens to you. That is easier if you give the people the chance to hear your music for free.<br>
<br>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.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
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> Normally, when I download music, I download the whole discography. And if<br>
> I like them and they come to visit us I go to their concert. Then they<br>
> earn enough money to pay the producers of their next album.<br>
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</div>And you really believe, that visiting a single concert can fully<br>
compensate downloading the whole discography?<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>They should be glad I wanted to listen to them and invest my time and ears on them, there's nothing I have to compensate. I am just freely accessing to culture. I'm not making artists lose any money because if I couldn't get their music from the internet for free, I would not buy their music, and it's because I download their music that, perhaps, maybe, at least I consier to go to one of their concerts.<br>
</div></div><br>If at this moment you are considering my arguments are crazy, reconsider that, because those arguments have been good enouh for my country, Spain. Here it is legal to share copyrighted products (except for sotware) like movies, music or books if you don't do it for profit.<br>
<br>Félix Robles<br>