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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Piracy? It's destroyed the music business. No one sells albums and very, very very few actually earn enough to eek out a living, unless you're a Disney kid or a TV show talent winner (and that's short lived).
Labels aren't signing and developing talent over the age of 21. Labels are earning money on catalog re-releases. It's a gigantic mess and unfortunately, it isn't going away.
A good record costs a lot of money to create. There are studio costs, gear rentals, producer and engineer fees, maintenance, tech's, etc. and so on. Even these days, a "real" record still costs $250-300k to produce, if you're using Top-Line talent. That's a lot of album sales these days at $9.99 in order for the Artist and label to recoup, and that's before any profit.
Illegal downloading will only diminish NIN-type releases because no one wants to work for free.
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Hey, sitting here thinking and also became curious as to what your thoughts are, not only to the concept of piracy itself, but also your thoughts on the method Trent chose to confront/respond to the issue via his quote you posted. Thanks in advance, dude.