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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 1559873" data-attributes="member: 19718">In response to my post...First of all, you are comparing apples with oranges here. Are you saying that anybody who has downloaded music actually makes profit selling the stuff he downloads? That just doesn't happen!Those that are actually directly making money with downloads are the minority, by far, as far as I can speculate (and, unless a new research ha come out, my speculation is as good as yours). You might say that _those_ are the immoral guys... but I won't say it: they are behaving badly, but they wouldn't have a market if the prices for CDs, books, whatever were lower, and/ or if their customers had some morality, too.Second: let's say that I make a record with a label. Everybody get it for free, and I sell nothing. I owe nothing to the record label. Recupable doesn't mean that I have to put any money out of my pocket. It means that I don't get money until the sells pay out the expenses. I can sell nothing, and still make a lot of money making gigs, and selling t-shirts... and with publishing deals.Anyway, you didn't answer my question: how can you tell that downloading is immoral and unexcusable, when you have the RIAA guys on the other end of the table?I admit that the RPG industry is way better than the music industry in this aspect. I prefer to think that the reason for this is that we RPG people are "better" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But the companies could do more. I would improve the PDF size of the market, offering out of print stuff at a discount, and lowering the prices even on new PDFs, where possible. I do believe that lower prices generates more buyers and more money, in the long run.I think that Michael can do that because his label thinks that his CDs will sell a lot. The fact that he gets a high royalty figure also reflect that.My 2 pences.</blockquote>

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