oh FFS! Here we go again, customers, millions of them, wanting to pay for your content. But you don't want to serve them?
Oh look, there's a free alternative with no restrictions. Hmm, maybe I'll just try that instead.
It's not about entitlement, it's about making customers of your fans - rather than enemies, which appears to be your objective?
Seriously, what other industry tells their potential customer to get lost when the product is there to sell?
WTF?
This is why piracy exists!
What kind of arse-about-face, fucked-up fantasy world are you living in when it makes sense to stick it to your customer?
That's what kills businesses!
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I'm guessing from your profile that you're a fairly new reader here? Apologies if I've misread that, but have a shufti through the case studies section of the site. There are a lot of people doing a lot of interesting things and finding their own ways to make it work.
Two things are consistent in their experiences:
1) there is no single new way of working, you have to tailor any approach to the artist and the fans in question.
2) there is no short cut, each and every way involves hard work and dedication - as you'd expect in any other walk of life.
Say I have two hobbies, with two different groups of friends. One of those hobbies might cause me a great deal of embarassment with the other groups of friends. Not harm, but I'd just really rather it didn't happen.
At the moment I can simply ask the friends in hobby group A not to tag me in photos and that's it. Job done.
Now I am concerned that people from hobby group B will see photos of me in hobby A and that might make things very uncomfortable.
Good shout, things have tightened up a lot in the UK (well, the laws have tightened up, the practices less so) but it's been very focussed on companies that actually take deposits rather than companies that facilitate payments.
I wonder how much money-laundering this prevents vs how many start-ups / innovators find themselves unable to realise their idea.
Do you really not see that there is a difference between talking about how to work with and around piracy and condoning it?
I don't pirate stuff, i don't condone it, i recognise that it exists and I try and work around it. I also don't try and restrict what other people can do because of what a small subset of people are doing.
I can't speak for him, but that's what I read in Mike's articles. You're obviously reading something very different.
Money laundering obligations is a good point, but presumably these things would have been checked when the account was set up. I wonder what's changed?
Seriously? That's one of your proof points? The one where about 3 people point you to a story where the opening line of the article says "we don't condone piracy"?
I'm wondering what debate you're having in your head.
There's umpteen ACs on that thread, I read the comments at the time and I don't recall you asking your clear questions then either.
So please, either post your direct questions, or stop harping on about it. Add something to the debate, don't just whinge that someone isn't engaging with your name-calling.
But Mike, you're a pirate! It must be true because someone you've never met has accused you of it, and we all know that accusations or piracy are pretty much equal to convictions right? I mean, by that measure you must be well past three strikes...
... for the usual defenders to come out with a statement on this one.
Probably something about it being legal and written into the contracts of the execs.
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Oh look, there's a free alternative with no restrictions. Hmm, maybe I'll just try that instead.
It's not about entitlement, it's about making customers of your fans - rather than enemies, which appears to be your objective?
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WTF?
This is why piracy exists!
What kind of arse-about-face, fucked-up fantasy world are you living in when it makes sense to stick it to your customer?
That's what kills businesses!
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Two things are consistent in their experiences:
1) there is no single new way of working, you have to tailor any approach to the artist and the fans in question.
2) there is no short cut, each and every way involves hard work and dedication - as you'd expect in any other walk of life.
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Example
At the moment I can simply ask the friends in hobby group A not to tag me in photos and that's it. Job done.
Now I am concerned that people from hobby group B will see photos of me in hobby A and that might make things very uncomfortable.
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Cheers!
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I wonder how much money-laundering this prevents vs how many start-ups / innovators find themselves unable to realise their idea.
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I don't pirate stuff, i don't condone it, i recognise that it exists and I try and work around it. I also don't try and restrict what other people can do because of what a small subset of people are doing.
I can't speak for him, but that's what I read in Mike's articles. You're obviously reading something very different.
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You really haven't got the whole 'content is advertising' thing have you?
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I'm wondering what debate you're having in your head.
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So please, either post your direct questions, or stop harping on about it. Add something to the debate, don't just whinge that someone isn't engaging with your name-calling.
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I'm waiting...
Probably something about it being legal and written into the contracts of the execs.
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