• @[email protected]
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    2711 months ago

    Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever

    It’s free advertising and costs nothing to the artist

    • Wugmeister
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      1311 months ago

      piracy also kept the music industry afloat

      And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 months ago

        But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.

        TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.

        • CuriousGoo
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          211 months ago

          They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.

        Intellectual Property is an illness.