Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

• infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ask that question to Spotify’s CEO. Ask that question to YouTube. Ask that question to Sony Music Execs. Ask that question to Warner Music Execs. Ask that question to RIAA.

  Come back to us with their responses, I’m sure you won’t get any.

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  • c0c0c0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, because they don’t pay artists enough, you shouldn’t pay them at all?

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Buy tickets for their shows. Buy their merchandise directly from the band. Never go through a middle man. Deal with the musicians directly.

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• mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember back when music (or any artistic expression really) was done out of passion to help people enjoy life more and musicians did other things like picking up a trade for money.

  These days, people feel like they can’t do anything without being paid for it.

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  • c0c0c0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When was this? When did people who need to devote their life to a craft long enough to get good at not want, even need, to be paid for it? There have always been hobbyists, and maybe that’s all you want, but there has never been a time when musicians would not have preferred to be supported by their passion, rather than the job they had to do in order to keep eating.

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• silvercove@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Musicians don’t make money either way.

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• totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think that 10% cut (or 0% if the artist still has debt) will amount to much for the majority of artists on a major label

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