The only argument for getting paid in this article is that sweat deserves a return.
That was Marx's labor theory of value. Marx was wrong.
You deserve a return only when you efficiently meet someone else's needs. The secret to economic success is not sweat, but creative sloth.
We measure value against the cost of substitutes, and other people already entertain me for free (without piracy).
Maybe entertainment just isn't a hard problem. Maybe the bottom 99% of entertainers are basically tagging cat pictures. Maybe we shouldn't encourage them.
I guess if you're an app dev, and want to learn one thing from the music industry, I'd find a way to connect with fans and give them a reason to buy: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12695
Then look for ways to be creatively lazy, and make sure your app can't be replaced by going for a walk on a spring day.
That was Marx's labor theory of value. Marx was wrong.
You deserve a return only when you efficiently meet someone else's needs. The secret to economic success is not sweat, but creative sloth.
We measure value against the cost of substitutes, and other people already entertain me for free (without piracy).
Maybe entertainment just isn't a hard problem. Maybe the bottom 99% of entertainers are basically tagging cat pictures. Maybe we shouldn't encourage them.
I guess if you're an app dev, and want to learn one thing from the music industry, I'd find a way to connect with fans and give them a reason to buy: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12695
Then look for ways to be creatively lazy, and make sure your app can't be replaced by going for a walk on a spring day.