I would really, really like people to explain to me how it's traditionally published authors who suffer MOST from piracy and the perception that "text files shouldn't cost money" Text files not costing money is WHY self-publishing online is impossible, was over before it started https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1245095054148067334 …
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They talk like the idea of a middle ground between 1% and all the zeros below NEVER EXISTED and is IMPOSSIBLE because they've been so brainwashed by digital reality "Record labels never signed bands who hadn't already gone viral, why would they do that, what would be the point"
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Like there never was a world where, if you could afford it, you would pay ten bucks for an album "just to check it out" and if you didn't like it, oh well, you were out ten bucks The whole concept of a "middle class" of either producers or consumers is extinct It's terrifying
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I do wonder about this, just generally. How long is the tail, really?
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Not even mentioning that by their own system, no one can have art as their day job unless you basically have a rich patron. So the only real art that gets supported is the type of art rich people like.
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