On the other hand, the idea that piracy has no impact on sales at all, while extremely convenient, is also obviously utterly absurd And comparing games to other media is not an apples to apples comparison - games are HARDER to pirate than, say, musichttps://twitter.com/quatoria/status/1244159197698240513 …
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There's plenty of people who just never pay for music, at all, they never have and they never will Some of them are aggressive jerks about it, but a lot of them are just passively like "Why would you"
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a good majority of people consume music through listening on YouTube; so the act of using or not using an adblocker makes it piracy or not piracy, in one sense
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The real story is that because of piracy always providing a seductive price point of zero, the legit free streaming services pay peanuts It's literally almost no money at all, like people with hundreds of thousands of fans make like fifty bucks a year for being on Spotify
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This has always been a universal issue with the music industry though; record labels have always sucked money from bands, who primarily make money from touring and merch
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It's a BIGGER issue now, Spotify's terms are FAR FAR WORSE than the terms you got from traditional publishing I wasn't being hyperbolic when I said "fifty bucks", it literally is fifty bucks
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"It was NEVER possible to make ANY money from selling albums, you ALWAYS had to make all your money from gigs" is a lie There used to be a functional "middle class" of artists who sold enough records to pay the bills without being Britney Spears, it's rapidly vanishing
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