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| quote: | Originally posted by BelgianGuru
That's so wrong my friend. The warez is hurting it, not the prices. Do you think they need to sell millions of instruments to keep their head above water ? No, they need to sell enough, and throughout the years every new generation would have about the same amount of people to work for money to get their hardware, the ones that didn't work for it simply couldn't afford it, like today. Not all artists that made it in the past were born rich.
It's like saying CD's got too high a price, so I download. Bullshit, your lifestyle got more expensive, you buy useless shit (you is not YOU, just the people that complain) like a cellphone to call your mother to tell her you're on your way home. You buy expensive clothes because you think it'll get you laid, you go out every week-end spending 50$ because you want to party all the time... You don't have any money left for CD's ? Hey you don't need it, go download it, you don't have to pay if you steal it. Don't mind about the families you're putting on the street without an income by doing it though, as long as you have everything you need it's fine.
It's only this (my) generation that seemed to have stopped to realise that behind every piece of software every piece of music, every game made, is a team or person who invested most of their lives in it, only to have it stolen by millions who claim the CD is too pricey.. 20$ for something that took a man years, or a team even longer ... that is quite the steal by itself.
The price of it has nothing to do with it, the price has always been high, any artist that loves music to the bone, will tell you that even 3000$ spent on an instrument is nothing, compared by what you get from it (and I don't mean the small amount of money you make if you ever get signed).
heck, sorry for the rant here, but a small example about me, and most probably many of you have something similar happening.
In High school I had this friend, almost a best friend, we'd go out every week-end partying etc... I took music classes from the age of 6, most people drop out of it because it's too hard or boring, yet he held it against me saying 'Yeah but we can't afford a piano' Hey asshole, neither could I, the entire family gave me a couple of bucks so I could go buy a rotten piece of wood for 500$, that I called my piano, and I played on it for 6 years untill I and my parents had saved money to buy a good one. At the age of 13 I see a DJ at work, holy shit I want to do that too. I save up money during 3 years to buy my Tech 12's and a mixing board. My 'friend' visits my house and he goes 'Shit I wish I was rich too, I would be a DJ too then'. Man, seriously, that makes me go mad inside. Now 4 years later, he hears I'm producing stuff, and spinning it at my own parties, this lousy ****** says in front of everybody 'I wish I was rich too, I would so make great tunes'. All this time this guy has been earning WAY more money then me, spending it on nice clothes, parties, girlfriends, trips to other countries etc... and me I stayed inside like a stupid ****** saving up money thinking that at least they would respect that. But no, people only see what they want to see, just like now when they see the price tag on a CD. And that's just sad. |
Fuckin absolutely SPOT ON mate, well done, i couldnt have typed that better myself.
Alan
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)and Cubase have dongles, some software has iLOK authorization, TC Powercore is tied to hardware (obviously). I think that DEFINITELY more companies need to use licensing methods like these to 1)combat piracy, 2)allow license transfers.
