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I guess I don't understand. He puts the music on his website for free. People give him money for this music, using the button on his website that says "PAY ANYTHING" http://www.pronobozo.com/music/ So... he puts out his music for free, and people pay him for it.

How much money would he make if he stopped giving it away for free? About the same, since his music is CC licensed and allows free distribution anyway. If he stopped licensing it that way, he would lose a lot of money because a lot of his supporters are pro-free culture types. It would be a different business model than the one he's using now.




The point is that he is not "making money by giving away his music for free". He is making money by selling it / and or asking for donations.

If he were not asking for donations, but still gave the music away for free, he would make no money.

Free == no money, in and of itself, you have to get the money elsewhere. Sometimes that works, sometimes it does not.




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