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:
(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.
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