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One of the latest beneficiaries of sharing music online, according to TorrentFreak, turns out to be the streaming music service Spotify:
Without The Pirate Bay, Spotify may have never turned into the success it is today. Ten years ago record labels were so desperate to find an answer to the ever-growing piracy problem that they agreed to take a gamble. Now, more than a decade later, Spotify has turned into a billion-dollar company, with pirate roots.
Last autumn the EU suppressed a 300-page copyright study showing yet again that copyright infringement does not harm sales. It often helps sales. Both factors have been known for a long time, with other studies going back to the 1990s.
Earlier on SN:
- Spotify Files for IPO After Losing $1.5 Billion in 2017
- Spotify Raises Cash to Fight Apple for Streaming Music Market
- Band Earns $20K for Silent Album on Spotify
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:20PM (4 children)
Anymore, I find audio CDs too bulky, and as for those jewel cases, those waste so much space that if limited to 1 CD per full sized case, they only barely beat the old vinyl LP. A 64G flash drive holds almost as much info as a stack of 100 CDs, and is way smaller. And if the audio is encoded in a decent lossy format such as Opus at 128kbs, that's a further 10 fold increase in information density over CD audio. Even if you insist on FLAC, it's still 2 to 3 times more audio info in the same space.
Why do you bother with audio CD?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by leftover on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:28PM (1 child)
Don't know about you or MDC but I buy CDs because they prove I own the right to play the music. Whenever possible I buy them "directly" from the band at live shows. Really have no idea how many there are in my stash but it is far more than I have time to listen to more than a fraction.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:20AM
I would have sold mine but it's piano not singing
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:32PM
-ists.
Also to have a reliable backup.
I've thought about it quite carefully, then firmly decided I will never purchase digital tracks.
But I have a 256 GB iGadget 7. I do not actually play my CDs anymore, I rip them then load them on my iPhone. All 320 kbps so as to enable The Reanimated Undead Corpse Of Steve Jobs to play nice with Open Sores audio software.
I at first ripped to 192, but over quite a long period of time realized that if I listen to 192 all day long, it makes me feel tired. That doesn't happen with 320. At least not yet.
I rip with some manner of half-assed LOONUCKS software. It gets good results but had _I_ written it, it wouldn't have been half-assed.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:58PM
Bit how long will your flash drive hold that data uncorrupted?