...it's the hordes of young adults with stars in their eyes who suffer most from piracy.
Actually, artists make almost all of their money on concerts and tangible non-musical items like t-shirts, because the music publishing industry takes such a large cut of each sale. Source: http://bit.ly/DigitalRoyalty -- which doesn't mention that before they get any return on sales at all, artists have to sell enough to cover whatever advance they were given & costs they owe.
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...it's the hordes of young adults with stars in their eyes who suffer most from piracy.
Actually, artists make almost all of their money on concerts and tangible non-musical items like t-shirts, because the music publishing industry takes such a large cut of each sale. Source: http://bit.ly/DigitalRoyalty -- which doesn't mention that before they get any return on sales at all, artists have to sell enough to cover whatever advance they were given & costs they owe.