There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.
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There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.
Also, the music industry is making more money than ever, with more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, driven almost entirely by online platforms.
Seems like the whole #PiracyCrusade scapegoating #P2P users was based on fallacious assumptions.
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There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.
Also, the music industry is making more money than ever, with more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, driven almost entirely by online platforms.
Seems like the whole #PiracyCrusade scapegoating #P2P users was based on fallacious assumptions.
@aram Yup. The music (and movie) industry has always been terrified of technology that they don't control -- even when the 'threat' of piracy doesn't dent their profits one bit. IMO it's always been about controlling technology to prop up their outdated industrial age business model.
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There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.
Also, the music industry is making more money than ever, with more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, driven almost entirely by online platforms.
Seems like the whole #PiracyCrusade scapegoating #P2P users was based on fallacious assumptions.
@aram And no one was surprised at all.
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There has never been more freely available music online than there is today.
Also, the music industry is making more money than ever, with more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, driven almost entirely by online platforms.
Seems like the whole #PiracyCrusade scapegoating #P2P users was based on fallacious assumptions.
@aram I'm not into any sort of fandom, but I could furnish every current or would-be Swiftie I know with the entire discography of artist in the cover photo of that article — the richest performing artist in history — with negligible effort, using one long-ish shell command. Scraping the audio from YouTube isn't even hard. Yet not one of them would ever consider it.
People have always paid for music because they want to; now, people only pay for music because they want to. People pirate music because they can't afford it — so they wouldn't have bought it anyway, so no one lost anything — and then they end up paying for it, after they already have it, when they can. Literally every fan I know of any musician bought in their 20s and 30s everything album and song they pirated in their teens and listened to more than once.
It was always and only every about control.
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