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Is music piracy dying?
(vlemmy.net)
Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series.
I've been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It's definitely been a while since I've looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.
Edit: Thank you all for all that valuable information. The reddit group really wasn't this helpful and valued making fun over adding real use able knowledge.
Year after year, new releases lose ground to the back catalog. Nobody likes new [top40] music, because it's cynical manufactured crap.
I'll just be over here listening to IDLES, Yves Tumor, Mau p, Chris Lake, ARTBAT, Jon Bohmer, Flume, Jpegmafia, etc. etc. Lots of great music guys, and it ain't even hard to find.
Doesn't really address my point, does it?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/ -- Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/music-catalogs-value-keeps-rising-could-it-change-the-face-of-the-entire-industry-1056229/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/its-official-new-music-is-shrinking-in-popularity-in-the-united-states/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/catalog-boom-analysis-for-the-record/
You're arguing against a point I never made. Obviously it's hyperbolic to say "nobody" likes new music because 30 percent of revenue is going to new music. But obviously there is a major problem and the fact that there is still some good new music coming out does not address that major problem.