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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Why do so many on here(generally those advocating "file-sharing") always portray an either/or situation?
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I don't necessarily think that's what they're saying. If the monetary incentive were hypothetically removed, then regardless of whether someone created for the love of the art or they did it for
both the love of the art and as a way to make money, they would likely continue to create without the incentive. It's only the group of people who only are in it for the money, or at least that's their primary motivation, that would stop.
It's not necessarily that many on here are ignoring the set of people who do both, it's just that for the purpose of this hypothetical discussion the set that are in it for both and the set that do it only for the love of the art are basically the same thing.
In reality, I'm sure there are all kinds of people that fall into various places between the two extremes (80/20, 75/25, 50/50... etc). But for the discussion at hand, it overly complicates things to try and address every position that someone may fall in. It's easier to talk about it in terms of 100/0 and 0/100 with the implied understanding that it's more of a gray area in reality.