Is Spotify helping kill off music piracy?


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Artists may like griping about subscription-based music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, but they appear to be doing a lot to kill off music piracy. TorrentFreak reports that music piracy in Norway has completely fallen off a cliff, as data from Ipsos shows that Norwegian Internet users pirated just 210 million songs in 2012, down from 1.2 billion in 2008. The survey also shows that roughly 47% of Norwegian Internet users say that they now subscribe to a music streaming service such as Spotify, and that more than half of those subscribers pay for a premium option. Or put another way, it seems as though opening up more avenues for people to pay for music will decrease their willingness to pirate copyrighted material.

 

 

http://bgr.com/2013/07/16/spotify-music-piracy-impact/

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Sure. It's easy to pay $10 and get unlimited music. The problem is that Spotify and others just screw artists in their own way too. Artists make so little from those kind of services. I guess at the same time, at least they are making something at all. I'm still looking to see more artists drop their labels and sell independently on their own websites. On of my favorite bands recently did that with their new album and got massive support.

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unfortunately there's another side to this story.

 

people are buying a lot less music, and the artists are making very little from streaming services, so they're also killing of the artists. 

 

so the morale of the story is, people will stop pirating music when you make to to cheap for the artists to live of it. 

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