Comments on: Meet Ramona DeSalvo, Professor and Mentor to Musicians http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/05/meet-ramona-desalvo-professor-and-mentor-to-musicians/ Copyright Information Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/05/meet-ramona-desalvo-professor-and-mentor-to-musicians/#comment-56553 Anonymous Thu, 27 May 2010 19:36:18 +0000 http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/?p=629#comment-56553 I'm a teenager who is dreaming of making a living as a games programmer. I respect copyright laws because without them I would have to try make a future living on donations (all other buisness models are undermined by piracy, if you can call donations a buisness model). Something wich would be very difficult, and simply not worth the effort of all that education and work that it takes to get there. Since copyright laws (in practice) are only getting weaker and more anti-creator every day I am really concerned about my future. I am not going to study programming for years and spend additional months making a game, just to se my game "shared" on file-sharing sites hours after the release. That's just a waste of my time, time I could have spent studying for another job where I actually have rights over what I produce. What suprises me is that some of my friends are also interested in working in the copyright industries, yet tehy don't share my worries. My best friend makes his own music (using pirated software, ofcourse...) and have dreams of becoming a musician in the future. But he still pirate all of his music, movies and games, undermining his own future. Can't he see the link between consumers paying for music and musicians geting paid for making music the way I see a link between consumer paying for games and game programmers getting payed for them? That's why I am suprised to hear that educating music students can have such a positive effect. How does she do that? I would really like to learn how to debate and educate like that. I’m a teenager who is dreaming of making a living as a games programmer. I respect copyright laws because without them I would have to try make a future living on donations (all other buisness models are undermined by piracy, if you can call donations a buisness model). Something wich would be very difficult, and simply not worth the effort of all that education and work that it takes to get there.

Since copyright laws (in practice) are only getting weaker and more anti-creator every day I am really concerned about my future.

I am not going to study programming for years and spend additional months making a game, just to se my game “shared” on file-sharing sites hours after the release. That’s just a waste of my time, time I could have spent studying for another job where I actually have rights over what I produce.

What suprises me is that some of my friends are also interested in working in the copyright industries, yet tehy don’t share my worries.

My best friend makes his own music (using pirated software, ofcourse…) and have dreams of becoming a musician in the future. But he still pirate all of his music, movies and games, undermining his own future. Can’t he see the link between consumers paying for music and musicians geting paid for making music the way I see a link between consumer paying for games and game programmers getting payed for them?

That’s why I am suprised to hear that educating music students can have such a positive effect. How does she do that? I would really like to learn how to debate and educate like that.

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