Well, in your rather ridiculous analogy, the consequences of amateur access to transplants would be graft loss and death. People would pay for the more expensive option to live. People can also tell the difference between âhey look what I can doâ amateur performances on youtube and professionals and are willing to pay the professionals for their concerts and recordings. And if they canât tell the difference, they canât. Such a person likely wouldnât have sought out one of your concerts or CDs anyway.
So, you have claimed on your blog to be the ultimate arbiter of HIP performance, what should be played and in what order, who is qualified to play it, how society should reimburse for it, what modern rep is acceptable to play and now good vs evil. Since you like to bring politics into your blog posts, this sounds like one of the current US candidates for president (hint: the one that doesnât wear pantsuits (in public)). If someone posts your recordings without your consent on youtube, have them taken down. If you donât like the reimbursement scheme for ads on your videos donât use the ads, or learn how to leverage a youtube channel to promote your career as many have done or donât use youtube. Use vimeo. Boycott youtube. Post videos on your own site behind a paywall. If you prefer surgical analogies, stop constantly whining about the knife sticking in your leg. Pull it out and stitch up the wound. > On Aug 4, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Ron Andrico <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your response, Danny. This issue does not have such direct > relevance to the lute and its music as Martin's excellent essay. But it > matters because I think it is not an exaggeration that probably every lute > enthusiast on this list visits Youtube on a frequent if not regular basis. > It can be the source of enjoyment and a source of information. But Youtube > is also a platform that ultimately runs roughshod over independent artists > and diminishes their ability to make a living from their valuable work. > > I suspect you may have misconstrued the intent of our post - we weren't > asking for money, but rather pointing out that Google/Youtube is indeed evil, > and they are really enabling the enormous scale of piracy and copyright > violation that's currently going on via Youtube. The fact is, Google/Youtube > makes piles of money off the traffic regardless of whether copyright is > honored or if it is not, so they have no inclination to care one way or the > other. And like many other facets of modern life, the commonly understood > explanation of a given situation differs greatly from reality, and the > average person is disinclined to care if it doesn't affect them directly. > > Imagine a not-to-distant future where some Uber-type service markets kidney > transplants in your own home, and they outsource the service to the hordes of > under-qualified medical students clamoring to have a chance to practice their > craft. The hospital is no longer relevant, and the fee for slicing and dicing > is driven way down. Details like sanitation and standards of expertise are > tossed out the window because the entire experience is all about disruption > of the norm and low-cost access to organ meats. People suffer, professional > expertise is ignored and uncompensated and, all the while, the entity making > piles of money is the owner of the software that connects butcher with > butchee. > > I'm not saying that this particular scenario has anything to do with > lute-playing, but I am saying that Google/Youtube are raking in piles of > money by offering a platform for distribution of copyrighted material and > they simply don't care whose rights are being violated. Again, this isn't > just about the money - it's about good versus evil. > > RA > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of > Daniel Shoskes <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 4:23 PM > To: Ron Andrico > Cc: Lute List > Subject: [LUTE] Re: New blog post > > I suppose you could rail against big bad Google (owner of youtube) but I > doubt that will put food on the table. I actually think a more likely to > succeed class action suit would be against the companies that automatically > claim that your video of 16th century music violates their copyright for a > Justin Bieber song. I just had a battle with one of them that took a month > and put me at risk for getting my entire channel shut down. > > In any case, if you have a devoted following that wants to support you > through your youtube endeavors you might want to consider Patreon. ( > <applewebdata://3290C547-1C1F-461B-962F-9ED7ABC31AC3>https://www.patreon.com/home > <https://www.patreon.com/home> <https://www.patreon.com/home > <https://www.patreon.com/home>>) > I have supported artists through this mechanism. > > > On Aug 4, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Ron Andrico <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > We have a mid-week blog post that is off-topic but lute-related and of > > peripheral interest to anyone who cares about making a living playing > > the lute and who views YouTube videos, which is probably everyone. > > > > [1]http://wp.me/p15OyV-35G <http://wp.me/p15OyV-35G> > > > > -- > > > > References > > > > 1. http://wp.me/p15OyV-35G <http://wp.me/p15OyV-35G> > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html> > > > -- --
