"People have the deluded belief every illicit download is a lost sale and because they were in a popular torrent they're owed literally billions of dollars lol" Okay, sure, that's deluded, although it's also largely a strawman the RIAA only uses for rhetorical leverage
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You know what's just as deluded? Believing that the Internet has had no net negative effect on the industry, indeed that it's all been positive effects, that because of the limitless exposure you can get online these days there's NO BETTER TIME to be a young artist!
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This is utter shit Capitalist marketing shill nonsens The kind of thing that gets people sneering "OK Boomer" when said about the "gig economy" in general And yet tons of people uncritically swallow it when it comes to music or illustrating or writing
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It's similar to how people get all heated up about how "overzealous copyright enforcement is worse than it's ever been" when, when it's more of a dead letter than it's ever been Free ripped content is hundreds, thousands, millions of times more common now than bootlegs in 1995
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