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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

piracy also kept the music industry afloat

And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Absolute_Axoltl 9 points 1 year ago

Ironically Napster now pays the most royalties to artists per stream

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.

Intellectual Property is an illness.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

"Where's your crown king nothin?" - James Hetfield probably

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Blame Lars Ulrich for that