Scrabble, anyone?
At some point, someone (no doubt with a beard) decided that because digital content could easily be copied, it should therefore be free.
The trouble is that content - good content, at least - costs money to produce. That's because producing content is hard work and people expect to be paid for their work... performers, technicians, musicians, writers... yes, even producers. But if no-one pays for the content, then those people can't get paid. And so they go and get other jobs. Which leaves the rest of us nothing to do on a Sunday night but drink or play scrabble.
And if anyone tries to cite YouTube one more time as an example of a free-content utopia, I will strap them to a chair and make them watch clips from it until their eyes bleed - which should take around 6 minutes. Tops.
The sort of people who push the free content agenda make a great deal of noise about how information should flow unrestricted and say that sharing clips of content in reviews or using content in "mashups" is a fundamental human right. Some can even keep a straight face as they say it (although it's hard to tell behind that beard). What they really mean is that they want to be able to download the content for free off BitTorrent.
I mean who seriously believes that people who won't pay for their operating systems will actually pay for content?
So, my cheapass friends, your manifesto will look a lot less implausible when you can explain why you should ever get paid for anything you ever do ever again when performers, technicians, writers and musicians can't.
In the meantime, stop pontificating about an industry you don't understand.
Although for me, pontificating gets 29 points with a triple letter score on the F...
The trouble is that content - good content, at least - costs money to produce. That's because producing content is hard work and people expect to be paid for their work... performers, technicians, musicians, writers... yes, even producers. But if no-one pays for the content, then those people can't get paid. And so they go and get other jobs. Which leaves the rest of us nothing to do on a Sunday night but drink or play scrabble.
And if anyone tries to cite YouTube one more time as an example of a free-content utopia, I will strap them to a chair and make them watch clips from it until their eyes bleed - which should take around 6 minutes. Tops.
The sort of people who push the free content agenda make a great deal of noise about how information should flow unrestricted and say that sharing clips of content in reviews or using content in "mashups" is a fundamental human right. Some can even keep a straight face as they say it (although it's hard to tell behind that beard). What they really mean is that they want to be able to download the content for free off BitTorrent.
I mean who seriously believes that people who won't pay for their operating systems will actually pay for content?
So, my cheapass friends, your manifesto will look a lot less implausible when you can explain why you should ever get paid for anything you ever do ever again when performers, technicians, writers and musicians can't.
In the meantime, stop pontificating about an industry you don't understand.
Although for me, pontificating gets 29 points with a triple letter score on the F...
posted by matt at
23:10
2 Comments:
Matt,
Yeah basically. It's hard to imagine how some 10 Million people bought music on iTunes with DRM given it's origins as "secret software from foreign companies."
Me thinks you are always going to have a pack of whiners wondering why they didn't get on board when they could.
Until then I think we just keep on trucking.
Regards,
Christopher
clevy@buydrm.com
http://thedrmblog.com
thank you thank you thank you. so it appears that not everyone in this industry is blind/def/painfully dum. keep up the good work! hi5. today i hate one person less in the world. my therapist says this is progress.
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