Comment by Aeolun | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Aeolun | Hacker News Reader

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I think I'm just following the old goldie: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I would not mind, and do not mind, other people using my work, that's why I have a bunch of open source work.

You can bet you ass that if I were touring the world giving sold-out concerts to 50k people at $200/ticket, 4 times a day, 4 days a week, I would not care if some bunch of random teenagers -that would have never paid for my music in the first place- download it off some torrent site.

They now know I exist, and if they're still fans when they grow older, they might come by and pay $200 to see me when I'm doing my 'legacy' tour in 30 years (hello Maroon 5).

If you do have the money, and you don't pay for the music, that's just sad, so now I've been a happy Spotify subscriber for years (and Apple Music, and Amazon Prime :eyeroll:).

I think it's worth to differentiate here profit going to actual people responsible for making a piece of media vs profit going to middlemen.

I have no problems screwing over the middlemen By vast majority they are shitty, predatory companies that abuse the position that they're in to screw over both consumers and creators, and probably avoid taxes too. But I'd rather pay people that actually made the stuff I enjoy because I want more of it.

> You can bet you ass that if I were touring the world giving sold-out concerts to 50k people at $200/ticket, 4 times a day, 4 days a week, I would not care if some bunch of random teenagers -that would have never paid for my music in the first place- download it off some torrent site.

That only because the losses are insignificant if you have enough money to not worry about money. It's different thing for smaller creators.

A bit of a tangent but I've been paying for Spotify for years and I love it (although I do miss the old UI) but I've got to admit I'm not happy when I read about the amount the artists get paid. $120 per year is a great bargain for me and I understand that Spotify is going to lose subscribers if they start putting the price up but really it's not fair to musicians who's entire back catalog is just sitting there available to me whenever I feel like playing it.

Over several years it must be a lot more money than it would have been if I bought every album once?

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