Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
by XorNot on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:51PM
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Your summary of the music situation feels very accurate given that in general Spotify and other services are apparently terrible for artists. Which was less of a concern for me when I was on the mainstream pop train, and has become a huge concern now that I've been exploring into less popular genres (and leaves an interesting dilemma: if it doesn't make it viable for artists somehow, what's the point?)
Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
by anieberry on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:19AM
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Before Spotify and streaming, artists were already getting their pants pulled down by record distributors. At least now many artists can distribute their own music and keep more of the cut.
With video, its awful. Networks and production companies are all to eager to cancel licenses and pull their content off of a service. The golden goose is that every network and production has their own service that they milk customers for $9.99 a month for (like Disney's B.S.). The end result is instead of you paying $100 a month for cable, you are paying $100 a month for 10 different services to get the same coverage. Back to piracy it is.