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From anecdotal observations: Where I live everything‘s streaming for people under 35, because it’s so convenient. I do imagine it depends on whether your region
by schrijver 8y ago
From anecdotal observations: Where I live everything‘s streaming for people under 35, because it’s so convenient. I do imagine it depends on whether your region has affordable and quick cellular internet access.
There are also download stores (DRM-free and lossless, which didn’t exist in file sharing’s prime days), which are popular with music enthousiasts and DJ’s. Coincidentally these also seem to be the people still using file sharing platforms to track down remixes and demo’s etc. that were never released commercially. However most users who need MP3’s for some reason or another (dj’ing at a house party, a trip with with bad cellular reception) nowadays use websites that rip from Youtube. It’s become such a rare event that people wouldn’t bother downloading software for it for example.