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Re:Independent Music Is Big by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday November 22, 2015 @05:36PM (#10611792)
How would you know? How would people whose creative careers have been destroyed be visible to you?

I don't dislike their "position", I dislike the fact that they're essentially even more parasitic on musical creators than the old majors used to be.

Have you ever heard of a streaming service paying a talented band/singer an advance? Or taking out ads? Or setting up press interviews?

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Re:Independent Music Is Big by Natanael_L on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:15PM (#10616567)
They should be visible SOMEHOW through all the research done on the effect of piracy. How would they go under? Sales displacement, which studies can't prove are widespread?

Spotify pays about the same per play and listener as radio does. How is that worse than the labels?

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