Question 1Insights into accessibility – a conversation with musician Andre Louis
haven't actually spoken too much about music. But you give a lot of what you make away for free. Is that right?
Réponse directeYeah, because I have this oxymoron called legal pirating. The idea behind legal pirating is that if I sold everything that I make, people would just torrent the things and that's just no good for business. So I decided that I'd give away lossy copies of my music. Lossy being a compressed artefact or in MP3s. So by doing that, it gives people not only the ability to hear who I am and I can get some recognition for the work that I do. But if anybody does like it and wants to come and get it and pay for some of the stuff they hear, then it's good word of mouth. So it's sort of ulterior motive, if you will. But it does help to actually boost sales in a strange roundabout way.
« Yeah, because I have this oxymoron called legal pirating. The idea behind legal pirating is that if I sold everything that I make, people would just torrent the things and that's just no good for business. So I decided that I'd give away lossy copies of my music. Lossy being a compressed artefact or in MP3s. So by doing that, it gives people not only the ability to hear who I am and I can get some recognition for the work that I do. But if anybody does like it and wants to come and get it and pay for some of the stuff they hear, then it's good word of mouth. So it's »