To: B-Chan
What about electronica? Are people going to pay to see someone on-tour push the play button on their sampler?
What about video games? How much money are you going to make selling Doom T-shirts?
What about movies? When they perfect eye-glasses that can project a large-screen-like image on your retina there will be no reason to ever go to the movies.
Telling Bruce Springsteen to make his money on the road is one thing, but what about all of the other artists making easily pirated digital forms of art that don't have the same opportunities to make money off "experiences" or "hardware" associated with their software property.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
__...but what about all of the other artists making easily pirated digital forms of art that don't have the same opportunities to make money off "experiences" or "hardware" associated with their software property. __
They'll have to produce something people are willing to pay for - as most of the musicians I know do during their "day jobs."
To: who_would_fardels_bear
"What about video games? How much money are you going to make selling Doom T-shirts?"
Well, one thing that the video game industry has is multi-player. You need a CD-key (a 20 digit code that is unique to each copy of the game) to play the game on their servers, and since multiplayer is the big draw, people will have to buy the game.
74 posted on
04/11/2003 4:54:30 PM PDT by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS!)
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