• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    uh cool trick, they don’t.

    Turns out small artists who pay middle men (publishers, who rake in billions a year) money to host their music on platforms like spotify, who then makes zero money because they run an unprofitable business (damn, if only there was a way to make money from this) and the listeners, who earn them, on average, 0 dollars, from a stream. Which means they lose money.

    Pirating your favorite bands music is going to make you more likely to buy an actual physical release, or digital. Thus paying them more in that one interaction than they have potentially ever been paid in your lifetime of listening to them on a streaming service.

    Btw, just have a think about the fact that artists, and spotify make ZERO money, more than likely negative money. Only to have a middle man raking in literally BILLIONS of dollars a year. Capitalism truly is something isn’t it? Oh and i haven’t even mentioned money laundering on spotify either, that’s a whole other thing.

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      7 months ago

      Please mention money laundering on Spotify. My friend wants to learn how to… Fight… This behavior in his detective work.

      Yes, that’s it.

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        7 months ago

        something something, you build a gang, and you recruit young people who are below the age of being prosecuted, have them make music, music bot the music, and then you proceed to collect royalties on money you never made. All while actively washing drug money or something. Something something.

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          7 months ago

          To be clear, you in no way shape or form are intending for your comment to be an implication against Cash Money Records. while Cash Money Records aknowledges that behavior may be common in the industry, CMR 100℅ has never and will never engage in this behavior.

          Oh, you weren’t accusing us directly. We didn’t need to make this statement… Fuck.