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I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a moment. Record labels bled musicians, sure. Piracy just all-out stole their music - I doubt you'll find any documente

• mandmandam 3y ago
  > Piracy just all-out stole their music - I doubt you'll find any documented instance where a musician was actually paid for their music by a kind pirate. That happens literally all the time. That's why there are studies about it. If you want to argue with the various study authors and find flaws in their methodology; go ahead. But the idea that no one who steals music would ever then pay for that music is absurd; on par with denying the moon landing, or that Azerbaijan exists. > Events, festivals, concerts should not be the only way a musician should hope to recoup some of the effort they put into creating music. I don't disagree in the slightest, but once again, the blame for that situation is squarely on the record labels. Bandcamp conclusively proved that independent musicians can make money from album sales, without the predatory industry machine, even as piracy continues unabated.