On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM, mark francombe
<mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote:
Really? Then why did sales enter the shitter?
It's exactly what happened. When music became readily available for free, people took it. The morality of downloading music didn't bother them at all; it became free because people didn't pay for it, and could take it (by and large) without consequence. They chose to do so.
Ok, so Spotify gets a bunch of money. Do the artists? If I sell a million records, and get two dollars for it (which is basically what the original article said), then who cares that people are 'paying for music'?
It's great! If you work for Spotify, or are an investor in it. If you create what they stream, it doesn't matter. Hell, I think I have something on Spotify. Never seen a nickel.
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