• wookiepedia@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Sometimes it does. Piracy drives up sales of traditional media (think: vinyl), as well as increasing crowd size at live performances. Also, merch sales scale with awareness of an artist. All of these things equal the payout of millions of plays on spoffy.

      • sour@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Except that using spotify does all of that as well.

        I’m not saying that spotify is good. But thinking piracy is better for the artist than spotify is delusional.

        • wookiepedia@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I’m delusional, then. Spotify hasn’t paid me a red cent, but piracy has indirectly put money in my pocket and food on my table.