Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Set up a Patreon and offer exclusive music content to subscribers, sell directly to fans through Bandcamp. With good marketing and social media presence you would get several times what any streaming service will pay you ever. Even if most people are pirating your music. If you are being pirated, you are worth listening to, and that means that people are willing to pay you something. I tell this to all aspiring musicians, companies are not your friend, labels are not your buddies. The pirate is not your enemy, the megabillionaire monopolistic corp is. Many musicians owe their popularity because a music pirate put their stuff online and got them noticed.

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  • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting in the end here that music pirates are paying artists in exposure? Musicians really can’t catch a break SMH

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not at all, that’s a straw man attack and a complete misread of my comment. Acquire reading comprehension skills then come back if you can come up with a non bad-faith comment.

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