Copyright WAR!

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1832597]

The first option, of course, makes it harder for people to earn a living from writing, music, television, etc. There's definitely a tradeoff here. If everyone torrents the next season of #Your Favourite TV Show# then there won't be a next one unless Kickstarter _really_ takes off.

Note: Voting for the third option without offering a solution which is technically feasible in the comments will merely cause giggling.

Comments

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for others but when I talk about content creators making a living it's an appeal to quantity & quality.

I think a system where content creators or artists can't make a living or aspire to making a living means a reduction in the amount of content created and a reduction in the quality on offer.

I want content created by someone who spends every working hour on it. I'm happy to pay. I just require a way of directing & aggregating my share.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I want content created by someone who spends every working hour on it.

I'd rather read/watch/listen to something that was good. Whether or not the person spent all day on it or did it part time is neither here nor there to me. I honestly have no idea whether most of the books I read are written by authors who write full time. I know that a few specific ones are or aren't (and don't see a difference in quality) but I don't know about most.

I certainly don't subscribe to some kind of punk purist idealism where "selling out" or being professional is always bad, or that artists should struggle in order to be "real", but I don't see that quality necessarily follows from the lifestyle of the creator. Quantity perhaps, but then a reduction in the possibility for quantity could lead to a corresponding increase in the pride/care taken over the quality of what remains.

Some genres/types of media do have fulltime work from the creator(s) as a necessity though, I fully accept that (large scale film productions, constantly touring stadium acts, most episodic format TV dramas) and most of those and some others also require complex distribution networks

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I’m going to out on a limb here and suggest there is a correlation between doing the job professionally and quantity and quality.