It Hurts

Addie Brownlee (www.addiebrownlee.com), a young musician, plays her guitar to the commuting crowd in a subway station. At her feet is a guitar case open for donations, some loose bills are scattered inside. As she sings commuters gather around but one by one they remove money from her guitar case.

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  Nonprofits & Activism

[aperionx]

I agree with this video completely, the RIAA needs to stop stealing from the artists!!

[BDNeon]

Anyone who creates something has a god given right to profit from their ideas. If you 291 disliking asshats think otherwise I bet you've never created anything yourself. How many of you work for free, hmm?

[Roy Spires]

Only a few dollars...

[NYCALC]

This is an awesome song by Addie Brownlee, and a super clever video!

[asmethur]

This is a great enactment of how it feels to have some one steal your ideas. I suspect that a lot of people who try to justify stealing music, movies, games and other content have never had something which they created and truly cared about stolen from them. Every human being has creativity in them and everyone wants respect and acknowledgment for the work that they do. If you believe in human rights and human dignity then help artists to protect their creations.

[ivar3145]

That's bullcrap. Most of today's artists whine about piracy all the time, but they don't realize that they would never have been so popular without it. Just look at how rich some of them are.

[TheWanderingAesthete]

I absolutely agree. Even if every single song was free artists would still have countless ways of making money off of their music. They make most of their money going on tour and getting paid way too much money to put on shows. They can also make money via countless advertising streams. If you have a lot of people's attention then you can make money.

[JayMann620]

Do you play music? Are you in a band? I can tell you from personal experience that downloading music DOESN'T hurt your sales or people checking out your music. Majority of people will download a song, and if they like it, they'll pay for the CD, which I fully support.