Like shit "selling merch" or whatever isn't new In the old days, if you liked the band you had to buy the album first just to hear the music, then you ALSO bought the merch Removing the first step is objectively taking money away from the band
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I would love, love to live in a future socialist world where there's a big public mandate to subsidize artists and pay them a livable wage for work commissioned according to a democratic process I am really, really not holding my breath this will ever be more than a pittance
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the trajectory this thread took is so necessary + so rarely articulated in a single breath like this.
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You got my support for this
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It worked for the BBC, before the right-wing media started gunning for it.
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Canada has significantly more liberal laws about what counts as "piracy" (individual use is a lot less likely to get you in trouble), and part of that is because there IS SUCH A TAX. Obviously it doesn't help every single creator or anything, but it creates a different climate.
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