EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by alerighi on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:49PM (#27803011)

Nowadays at least in my country is difficult to find music legally to download and burn on a CD. My car stereo only has CD, and I don't want to change a very good stereo (it sounds far better than the built in stereo of most new cars) just to put one with bluetooth so I can play Spotify, and I don't want even to use the AUX input, since the quality is not that great (it picks up a lot of noise) and most importantly I have to use the phone to change track (and that introduces a distraction, I prefer not to use my phone when I'm driving).

Nowadays it's impossible to find mp3. I have a Spotify premium account, so I can download music, but not in a format that lets me burn it on a CD. So basically I pay 10 euro a month and I don't even have the freedom to listen to the music on whatever device I prefer.

I miss the old days where you could find everything to pirate. These days thanks god there is Telegram that lets me download some mp3 in decent quality, otherwise I have to download YouTube videos and the audio quality is awful (but probably most people will not notice since they have crappy stereos in the first place).

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by johnchristopher on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:06AM (#27807831)

> Nowadays at least in my country is difficult to find music legally to download and burn on a CD.

It's weird how at the same time the lack of option to legally download and burn CD and the lack of optical players "if there is no way of legaly watching the content piracy is the only way. (and importing expensive DVDs in an erra where literally none of my devices have optical bays is not actual option)" lead to the same conclusion: pirating.

> I miss the old days where you could find everything to pirate. These days thanks god there is Telegram that lets me download some mp3 in decent quality, otherwise I have to download YouTube videos and the audio quality is awful (but probably most people will not notice since they have crappy stereos in the first place).

Amen to that. Just yesterday I bought two tracks from https://christophertin.com/projects/civilizationvi.html (it's not the link I used, that one led to gumstore something which allows me to download FLAC tracks) and today I can't even find the store link.

I tried to buy in the same way the whole album but there are no "download" options.

Every albums/EPs has different streaming options but there are no download options for everything.

I ended up using youtube-dl on the music.youtube.com and I can clearly hear the differences. I suspect these tracks are amputated from some instruments or settings.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by detaro on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:50PM (#27803024)

What country is that? While the focus for sure has shifted to streaming, here in Germany e.g. Amazon will sell you files if you want.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by salamandersauce on Sunday July 11, 2021 @08:46PM (#27805767)

I think the number of countries where Amazon sells MP3s is nor very high. They've never sold them in Canada for example.

Seems like there's a lot of countries where Apple doesn't even operate the iTunes Music Store too which is surprising to me. Like Albania and Iceland.

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