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- walker0
wow, version4, i'm not sure where to start with a response to your post... i'm hoping that you can at least agree that if anyone should be making money of an artistic product, it should at the very least be the artist him/her-self.
i actually agree with your whole "artists shouldn't live off their art, down with the elite arts bullshit" - but that aside, it just doesn't seem fair that people from a russian website are making money from selling my music when: A.) i have not given my approval and B.) I do not receive any money from it - not even a percentage or royalties.
It amazes me that there are people out there - like yourself I guess - that don't see a fundamental problem with this... regardless of your stance on people profiting from their art, or how evil the big record companies are... they're just stealing my shit - and, and this is the big difference between people who just download music for free - they are actually MAKING money off stealing. That seems like something that everyone could agree on.... especially on this board.
Sheesh! we're all designers here (mostly) who either make a living from their art & design, or at least hope to. Now you're telling me that if someone ripped off a peice of work of yours - pretended that they had your permission - and then proceeded to MAKE money from it, you would not think there is "something" wrong with that?BTW, what's a "placebo member"?