TED演讲：Theartofasking请求的艺术(9)

那一刻我决定我要抓住可能的机会在网上免费共享我的音乐。当时Metallica正在声讨（音乐分享网站）Napster 而我Amanda Palmer却在唱反调，鼓励 BT、下载、分享，但是我会请求人们的帮助 因为这种方式在街头是行得通的。
So I fought my way off my label and for my next project with my new band, the Grand Theft Orchestra,I turned to crowdfunding , and I fell into those thousands of connections that I"d made, and I asked my crowd to catch me. And the goal was 100,000 dollars. My fans backed me at nearly 1.2 million, which was the biggest music crowdfunding project to date. 所以我和厂牌斗争，结束了合作， 并与我的乐队the Grand Theft Orchestra，我开始在人群中融资。
我纵身一跃，跳入我建立的成千上万的联系之中 我请求人群接住我。我的目标是十万美元 我的歌迷们为我提供了一百二十万，这是历史上规模最大的音乐人群募资(Applause)
And you can see how many people it is. It"s about 25,000 people.
可以看出有多少人参与了募款。大约两万五千人。
And the media asked, "Amanda, the music business is tanking下滑 and you encourage piracy . How did you make all these people pay for music?" And the real answer is, I didn"t make them. I asked them. And through the very act of asking people, I"d connected with them, and when you connect with them, people want to help you. It"s kind of counter intuitive for a lot of artists. They don"t want to ask for things. But it"s not easy. It"s not easy to ask. And a lot of artists have a problem with this. Asking makes you vulnerable . 媒体会问，“Amanda， 音乐产业在衰亡，而你鼓励盗版。