Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by Insanity on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:43AM
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I completely agree. Steam was the reason I stopped pirating.
For music, spotify did the trick :-)
Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by anigbrowl on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:06PM
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How are artists doing under Spotify? Oh wait, that's not your problem.
Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by ionised on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @12:26PM
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You're right, it's not his problem.
Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by Insanity on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:52PM
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Are they doing better when people are pirating?
The bands that I like, I buy the album from anyway just to support them. But for music that I listen to every now and then - they would not get me to buy their album. So they actually would either make no money from me, or a bit through spotify.
Re:Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (2015)
by baddox on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:45PM
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How are artists doing with traditional album sales (digital or physical)? As far as I can tell, music sales have basically always been A) you're a huge artist and make lots of money or B) you're not huge and you can only make money touring.
A large part of Steam's success is that they built a better product than the one offered by piracy. That's worth paying for.
Granted, this isn't a cure-all. I'm sure some people still pirate games, and it's probably impossible to estimate how many represent "lost sales." Moreover, games are one of the trickier things to pirate, often requiring some technical knowledge (using disk images, keygens, cracks, etc.). Music is obviously much easier to pirate.