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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (www.billboard.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

As a former professional, now semi professional musician: we make our money playing gigs and selling merchandise, not by getting paid by Spotify. Go ahead, pirate all you want. But also go to shows, buy merch, if the bands are on bandcamp, buy their shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Random idea: do you think a platform for crowd sourcing / funding ideas could go well for musicians? Like a feature request in software, where users can like a post about a feature to show interest, except it would use dollars instead of likes. Fans could publish an idea for a song they like and donate $5 or whatever. If it’s a popular idea, more people donate to it and the artist takes notice (having now been somewhat paid to produce it).

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Fans could publish an idea for a song they like and donate $5 or whatever.

    i'm a musician and i don't really like the idea of Cameo-ing music. Also, $5 is not nearly enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well, if it stays at $5 then it’s probably not a popular idea. If 1000 people like the idea and each put $5, now we’re talking $5k. Still probably not quite enough, but it is producing income via a novel way of getting in touch with the audience.

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