I'm being a pedantic dick by pointing out that I can't give you my piece of fruit and still have it for myself, right? That there are real costs associated with storing and transporting food, and that the production cost of food scales with the number of people who want to eat, right? I mean, it's kind of an assholish thing to actually write this out, as if you didn't already know it, right?
Have you ever made a feature film? The one we're making has cost us $50k so far and we've not even got a master yet, even with most people working for points not hard $.
But it's a one time production cost. Once its made, copies are free. Distribution is getting to be near free. It's fundamentally different from food.
What, exactly, are you hoping to get paid for? I don't mean that sarcastically, I really want to know. In an economic sense, what value are you providing? Entertainment has always made its money in one of four ways: by limiting access (theaters, concert halls), by selling physical objects (books, cds, paintings), by draping it in ads, or by pure patronage.
You've still got 3 out 4, and yet you're on here bitching just because someone told you how much money they're willing to pay you for one form of content delivery.
The exact same argument can be made for software, and anything else you can do on the computer. A few people are happy to create things for free, but those same people would generally prefer to be able to make a living doing what they love.
I'm not expecting this to be new to anyone here, as most of these arguments have been on the internet for years now.
