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Re:Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scrapin... by glitcher on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:46PM (#46356498)
And also being the successor to Napster, the irony is thick with this quote:

"Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy"

Funny thing, I've met a lot of independent artists who don't care about piracy one bit. I have a feeling it's the record labels and large corporations, not the artists, making the biggest fuss over piracy.

Re:Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scrapin... by sosborn on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:55PM (#46356625)
For an independent artist, exposure matters more than album sales as it leads to ticket sales.

For large labels, exposure is a solved problem and album sales are all that matters.

They are all trying to maximize revenue, they just have different ways of going about it.