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The music industry still makes less money then it did at its peak just before piracy
by space_fountain 5y ago
The music industry still makes less money then it did at its peak just before piracy
- ugjka 5y agoYeah, because you bought an entire CD for that one song and the rest was filler
- sschueller 5y agoHowever the artists are still paid badly as before and the middle man still takes a large chunk from them.
- morelisp 5y agoBut it's not the cut from the middleman that's gone down as a result (in fact there's whole new layers of middlemen), rather the variety of artists making a living wage from industry contracts. "Working musicians" are dying off; you're either a superstar, or you're living on ramen or doing it as a side gig. Overall the result is pretty bad for a society which values professional artists.