First Thought Of The Day

One thing that's frustrating about talking to advocates of the "everything will be on-line for free whether you like it or not and fighting it or even objecting to it or calling us a name I'd rather not be called makes you an old man, old man" is that there's always -- always -- an assumption that the objection is financial, that the artist is moving to protect their art from other people cutting into their profits on it.

This assumption is not only rhetorically advantageous because of the mistrust that artists and art patrons have for people profiting from art, it leads into a very specific array of arguments like 1) you'd do better not to fight it, or 2) if piracy can derail your profiting from it, it wasn't worthy in the first place, or 3) we're heading towards all art = free and you better get used to it, and so on. While there are literally dozens of directions you can go once that assumption is made, the assumption always restricts. I've literally never seen this assumption not made by an advocate of those positions. It's maddening, because in many cases I don't think that's the main issue at all.
 
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