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But a service that artificially inflates revenues with shady accounting of song plays while simultaneously withholding payments toward creators, that's totally not criminal.
-Also the music industry
Copyright laws based in the eighteenth century sure are awesome when applying analog scarcity to the digital world! /s
I agree, why not have all of the funds go to servers and the engineers+teams and the rest of the profits go to artists that make the service possible
Because our whole economic system revolves sound and rewards rent seeking, and paying people operates in opposition to that.
That's why I pirate. I don't even use 95% of what I download and seed. Just spread it.