i think the issue with torrenting/"downloading" which isn't touched upon in my experience is as follows: we live in an age where the barrier to content creatio

i think the issue with torrenting/"downloading" which isn't touched upon in my experience is as follows: we live in an age where the barrier to content creation is next to nothing. For music production (an area I'm fairly knowledgable) we have a plethora of free DAWs, free incredible instruments, very affordable recording hardware, excellent sub $200 microphones and so on. The explosion of creator content is incredible. It's almost not necessary to listen to something more than twice in this day and age, as just when you've finished listening to today's hype, tomorrow's hype is around the corner. If i use bandcamp's recommended album pricing of USD$7 and round to $10 (im from AUD) for some easy maths. Say i am exposed to 10 albums a day which frankly is very easy...that's $100. If I'm exposed to 10 albums per day, 7 days a week, that's $700. If i multiply this by 52, that's $36,400 per annum. That's more or less minimum wage. You might think "10 albums a day is ridiculous", so - i'll half it for you...is $15,200 a year for digital files - a good value proposition, assuming I will listen to these files probably 3 times each? Max? If the artists creating this kind of content cant afford to pay for it themselves to get the inspiration required to create it...who does this model work for?