Rawne1980 said:
I'd love to see how people would survive if they did it all purely for arts sake.
Which they actually would.
People created art in terms of music and pictures SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS before they could even turn a modern sense of "profit" out of it. It didn't help their survival in the slightest (which was a big issue back then since survival was pretty much all there was to do for the man of the stone age), but STILL archeological finds have revealed, primitive man-made musical instruments and cave wall paintings.
And the same thing would happen today. Even if piracy was to make the music industry crash and burn and make it financially impossible to actually turn a profit as an artist from making music, you'd still have these "morons" (quotationmarks intended to display sarcasm) making, recording and distributing music anyway.
"But why?" says the gullible liberal/capitalist robot of modern society. "Why would anyone do something that doesn't earn them some of that allmight dollar!? Does not compute! Syntax Error!"
Well because IT'S HUMAN NATURE! This capitalist, trade-based, globalist society of today has only been a norm for a fraction of mankinds total existence. This concept of "I should try to make MONEY off of my daily activities" is just that: a concept. It's not a defining trait of our nature. Our nature is more in line of being social creatures, but who tend to get bored with just meaningless existence. So we find/invent excuses for keeping ourselves busy in ways we think are aesthetically pleasing in some way (making music and listening to other people making it being one of them). This behaviour existed before freemarket capitalism did.
WHich is why I find it so incredibly stupid when some people on the escapist messageboards (the same messageboards who pretty much declared themselves the last "sane" and "intelligent" place on the internet), rant about how piracy will bring down the videogame industry, along with pretty much every other artistic industry that exists because "those poor, poor artist won't want to make art if they don't get paid for it! boohoo!" while they all happily jump on the corporate bandwagon, defending DRM's and make snide remarks towards innocent people being charged with ridiculous and uncalled for fines by satanic megacorporations who get their kicks out of destroying people's lives.
Fact: neither videogames, music, movies, books or whatever will just "vanish" because piracy is active and flourishing. Someone, somewhere, somehow will ALWAYS spend some of their freetime creating these pieces of art for the sheer sense of self-satisfaction that it brings. The only people who are really threatened by piracy are pretty much money-grubbing middlemen with no real artistic talent at all (record lable companies, publishers etc.) but who REALLY DO spoonge and cling to people with artistic talent with parasitic intentions.
Why the hell would people who claim to LIKE games/movies/music actually defend these parasites who do NOTHING to further the industry or it's creative people what so ever? It's completely beyond my comperhension.
Yet it happens on these messageboards for some reason. Ain't it wierd?
