Question

The other battle cry you hear from people opposed to open file sharing is that the artist are not making any money. Let's be clear about this. The "artists" people are referring to are famous pop and rock stars. These famous musicians are getting paid. They make millions of dollars a year from concerts, commercials, and other appearances
Why is the passage an example of fallacious reasoning?

Answer 1

It's a fallacious reasoning because it's saying that these artists who are famous aren't making money when they are clearly being very productive with their talent to make more money.

if it was referring to a street artist, it would be a different reasoning, and not fallacious, since they are trying to build themselves up in not an according to a
way.