Spotify itself is an effective way to deal with pirates in the music industry — https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/spotify-has-everything-piracy-drops-as-st

Spotify itself is an effective way to deal with pirates in the music industry — https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/spotify-has-everything-piracy-drops-as-streaming-wins-over-illegal-downloaders/073373 https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/spotify-has-everythin... You really just have to offer a better deal, and it doesn’t have to be a perfect one. Don’t hyper-focus on preventing IP from being shared by people. So long as there are mass storage devices and paper copy machines, there will be piracy. People used to even transmit computer programs over radio at night in Eastern Europe shortly before the collapse of USSR. You can’t outlaw all means of piracy even if you take down all the sites, but there is a different way to combat it with your own creative products — offering a better legal deal to pirates. And there is evidence that it works. :) And if it doesn’t work for you, then the market doesn’t work for you. That’s the practical reality. We can daydream about piracy not existing but it will remain a daydream — maybe a nice daydream, I don’t know. But I do know it is not the market we have in reality.