nobody would fucking have to worry about pirates - and the amount of pirates would go down, to boot! their income would go drastically up! - if everybody and their grandma wasn't starving while working sixty hours a week!
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
fucking streaming destroying royalties, indie publishers doing 'race to the bottom' price slashes on their own work because EVERYBODY IS BROKE and the only income you can get from the majority is off people with maybe a dollar or two to spare, and everybody shits about PIRATES?
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Replying to @spacetwinks
Okay you think these things are somehow entirely unrelated? The race to the bottom is clearly because of a baseline expectation that everyone is competing with a price of zero dollars Spotify *explicitly said this* when talking about why their rates are so low
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Replying to @arthur_affect
SOUNDS LIKE SPOTIFY, A COMPANY WITH MONEY TO FUCKING BURN, SHOULD EAT THE COSTS OR THEY COULD JUST BE, Y'KNOW, SAYING THAT AS COVER TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO PAY NOTHING WHILE REAPING MASSIVE PROFIT BUT A COMPANY WOULD NEVER DO THAT!
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Replying to @spacetwinks
Okay, so why don't the publishers - or the artists themselves, going indie - just tell Spotify to fuck off take their music off the service, and just sell it directly to the fans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
I mean, they're getting fucked because people refuse to pay for music No one is actually stopping them from directly appealing to the fans "Hey just pay us instead of supporting this parasitic middleman" Except that it wouldn't fucking work
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Replying to @arthur_affect
no, many ARE being stopped from selling directly to the fans, thanks to their shitty contracts from the publishers. they are first exploited by the record companies, and then again exploited by spotify.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
like fucking hell we have massive history and all sorts of talk about this from the artists themselves! we have Prince who was infamously struggling with the corporations over this kind of shit, which was why he was so defensive of his work!
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
and many artists have before already gone this way, when they can, and they have found it to be a better avenue for themselves! many indie people stick to bandcamp! artists have talked about how shitty spotify is for them even as they're stuck!
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Replying to @spacetwinks
Yeah the indie artists on Bandcamp aren't actually making money by and large Like, artists aren't stupid and the world isn't a movie where the naive teenager gets pressured into a contract by the sleazy guy with the sunglasses Everyone's seen that movie
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Artists go for deals with labels and publishers because going indie is a great deal more work and more risk for a very very low chance of success This is a lot more true for book authors than for musicians (all of these markets are different)
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