But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.
They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.
Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever
It’s free advertising and costs nothing to the artist
And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like
Ironically Napster now pays the most royalties to artists per stream
But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.
They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.
They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.
Intellectual Property is an illness.
“Where’s your crown king nothin?” - James Hetfield probably
Blame Lars Ulrich for that