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I am suprised at the amount of tricks that are exposed on the internet. I would hate my tricks to all be exposed, youtube is fulled with people exposing other magicians, tricks that cost £10 on the internet I can find for free on google, I think its a shame that these tricks are so easily accesable, and any one can find out how it is done. Any thoughts?

OH yes. Terrible terrible terrible. I have sent emails to some of these jerks and they have these terrible responses like "I am doing it for people who can't afford magic" or "I learned it for free, I am just sharing it with everyone so they can do magic too"

Even one of MY tricks has been exposed on YouTube! Unfortuantely, that meant the only way the ebook (which people bought just to learn the exposed effect) can survive is if I put it on the internet publicly as a free download for magicians. I did it at the Magiczine.

In case you are wondering, this (my best effect to date) was the effect exposed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkLzvr5KnRw sorry about the video effects

I'm really considering collating every argument FOR exposure I can find and systematically refuting each one and sending distributing the article, free of charge, so that it can be sent to the offenders one of these days.

At the very least it should (hopefully) mean they understand that what they are doing is wrong and indefensible.

I am new to magic, so this exposure of magic doesn't effect me, but I can understand that some peopel who put alot of time, money and effort in tricks only to find it is on the internet for free. Another thing that must bug, magicians is when people learn a trick and then show it on youtube when they havn't mastered it yet, that is just as bad.

umop 3p!sdn wrote:I am new to magic, so this exposure of magic doesn't effect me, but I can understand that some peopel who put alot of time, money and effort in tricks only to find it is on the internet for free. Another thing that must bug, magicians is when people learn a trick and then show it on youtube when they havn't mastered it yet, that is just as bad.

The REAL problem is that the people who create these effects loose out on sales, and when you have creators whose sole income is from creating and performing, it's far from a good situation.

umop 3p!sdn wrote:I am new to magic, so this exposure of magic doesn't effect me, but I can understand that some peopel who put alot of time, money and effort in tricks only to find it is on the internet for free. Another thing that must bug, magicians is when people learn a trick and then show it on youtube when they havn't mastered it yet, that is just as bad.

It does affect you though. When you show your first tricks to your friends, what do you do when they say:
"Oh yeah, I know that one, saw some talentless idiot perform it badly on youtube. Show us some real magic then"
There goes your time, money and effort.