Is music piracy dying?
Is music piracy dying?
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.
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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.billboard.com/pro/catalog-boom-analysis-for-the-record/
"top 40" music has always, by and large, sucked. Only the good stuff in that popular batch stays around until today; the Beatles, for example, stayed around in the popular consciousness because they were both incredibly successful and trailblazing artists (in some sense or another). Most of what else was popular when they were rising to fame has been lost to time, because they were passing fads, just like how most of today's music will end up. It's survivorship bias to assume that the best music from the 60's all the way to the 90's and 00's (if you like) is all that released, and all that was popular.
Take some time to look, and I promise you there's tons of material coming out everyday that you can find in every single genre, some of which is bound to strike a positive nerve. Bandcamp indie artist or smash hit on spotify, it doesn't matter.
I promise you there’s tons of material coming out everyday that you can find in every single genre
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.
Well yea, that part was me trying to say there's music as good as old stuff being made today; my first paragraph is about the fact that obviously old stuff will persist if it struck gold and became legend. Who cares? Why is that a problem? Just because a lot of money is still being made on the back of old music doesn't mean that there's some huge problem with new music or the way it's made.
If anything, it's another way to point at digital music distribution and the way it's destroyed the perceived value of music. Old music didn't have that problem from the start.
I wasn't adressing that point specifically, I just meant to show that there is a lot of good music still, and not only some obscure shit no one really listens to.
I will do some more reading on this subject and edit with my thoughts on that.
Though my initial thought is there is an inherent bias here, and that is time.
Eh, this kind of fearmongering has been in the music industry forever now. If no one is releasing new music, or there is a ridiculously high barrier to entry, there will simply be another indie music boom.
And I also think this is something where the data should be niche specific. Like how would this affect me as a tech house producer, for example? There is currently a tech house boom, with labels like Repopulate Mars, Toolroom, dirty bird. etc. These labels will continue to put out good and new music because that is their prerogative. Even labels such as Ajundeep are still publishing unknowns.