Artists die from not getting exposure. This isn’t one of those “play my wedding for exposure” things. It’s being a regular song playing in one of the world’s most popular game franchises.
They should get paid, sure, but telling them to fuck off because the rate wasn’t what they want is dumb.
No, but me going out and buying all their stuff pays the bills.
I’ve never heard of Heaven 17. On GTA V, there are a lot of bands than I had never heard of too. Rockstar introduced me to those bands, their other work, solos from those members, and other artists in those genres.
Frankly, if I was a musician that wasn’t already a huge star, I’d do it for FREE because of the massive GUARANTEED exposure.
Until there is a hard kill switch for the cellular connection, they can’t claim to not be scummy
That’s awesome. I don’t have that patience. 😇
Well, did he not pay taxes? If that’s the case then yeah, he’s dumb.
Always pay your taxes!!!
I provide places with my name misspelled all the time. That’s misrepresenting, but not a crime.
A billion dollar company got played. Change the code and pay out the money. Are they going to refund advertisers? Doubt it.
When I was hiring a developer to come on to my all white male team I was really hoping for a woman to apply. Sadly, that never happened. I was able to cut down on the whiteness though, and no I didn’t pick a lesser candidate because they weren’t white. It was just coincidence.
But corporations rarely get punished. So, I see a small fry taking advantage of a loophole to make money.
Granted, this person really should have quit before they got noticed. You get caught when you get greedy.
Is it? Taking money from big corporations, using their own machine? Sounds like you don’t know much about capitalism.
You could have responded without being an asshole. If we had discussed this politely we probably could have reached an acceptable middle ground and both learned something from the other person’s experiences and ideas.