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> Take DRM away, and creators will just stop releasing things digitally. Is that guaranteed? Album sales rarely made money for musicians; they made their mone
by brightlancer 3y ago
> Take DRM away, and creators will just stop releasing things digitally.
Is that guaranteed?
Album sales rarely made money for musicians; they made their money from live performances and merchandise. Plenty of musicians have released their music online as MP3s to drive folks to their concerts.
And long before DRM, we used to record things off the radio.
It's easier than ever to share music but instead people pay monthly subscription fees to streaming services.
Folks will pay for convenience. A lot of "piracy" was driven by an inability to get something _at all_ or only at an absurd price. And despite the protestations of the music and movie industries (both with long records of screwing over the artists), it's unlikely that "piracy" cause much financial loss.
- gorgoiler 3y agoIn the 90s I really wanted this one song by REM. I can’t even remember what it was. The band had just rounded out their deal with one record label and moved to another, and the old label closed out the deal with a “greatest hits” record from everything up and including Document, I think. That CD cost me $16. That’s $30 today. For an hour of music. Record label culture reeks of greed.
- rvense 3y ago> Album sales rarely made money for musicians Before Napster they definitely did. The saying is that you used to tour to promote the album, now you make the album to promote the tour. Artists have always been last in line to get paid, but there was much, much more money in it before 2000.