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Originally Posted by Huggles
I have read this many times on those sites:
"Artists don't deserve to get paid more than once for art. If a musician makes music, he should be paid once when the music is made. Then the music is free for all."
They like to say things like:
"If I build a house with wood and nails, do I come back and charge someone for the nails and wood again in a year? No, I worked once and I got paid once."
It is class war for sure. Many of these people believe art should be free. Music, software, apps, porn, EVERYTHING to them is art and should be free.
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Yep, I had this argument a few months back with someone on this board. We argued over the new SAG union debate where the actors want to make a little more money from the sale of DVDs and from online distribution and the other person felt that an actor should get hired, paid for their work and that was it. no royalties or any type of residual.
I feel it depends on the situation. If something you helped create gets sold over and over again and one of the reasons for the sale is your involvement in it you should get some kind of residual check. Some people don't think that.
As I have always said, if you like big blockbuster type movies like Wolverine, Transformers and Batman you should not support downloading because those movies cost a ton to make and if they know the movie is just going to get stolen and eventually not make money they will stop making those types of movies.
Movies and music is a business, the day it stops becoming profitable is when it ends and pirating is eating into those profits.