• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Every single artist did it to Napster, Metallica were just the front men. Tbf Napster wasnt going to survive legally, and if it had remained popular they would have gone to shit with some sort of payment system

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      7 hours ago

      Not even in the slightest. Metallica went far above and beyond everyone else hunting down little old ladies to sue.

      99% of bands didn’t make money from album sales, which is what makes all the hand wrangling over Spotify funny. Musicians idolise a world that never really existed.