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   Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 11:33:00 JST Ned Yeung

   Remember how Napster was demonized for taking money away from artists? Anti-pirating messages have been pushed by platforms much more than artists, because they are protecting their own ill-gotten pirated wealth. #piracy #Royalties

   (Note: Napster is no longer peer-to-peer so this isn't really relevant to them anymore, but this is about the other platforms which were always legal, licensed, and "legitimate".)

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     mike805 (mike805@noc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 11:33:00 JST mike805

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     @ned What I remember is all the utopian talk from the mp3.com era about how there was all this great music we never got to hear because of those evil record labels. Soon we'd be rid of the labels and artists would get paid what they were worth and we would have all this new music.

     Now I keep reading about how artists wish for the old days of merely being ripped off by record labels.

     And it is hilarious that the corpse of Napster is the best paying service.