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lavendersilk said:
I disagree about the artists being as effected by lack of record sales. It is the record company that suffers. Artists have always made more money touring.

Hardly anyone listens to the radio anymore yet that was a free way to listen to music. It was also the best publicity for the artists. Now we pay for that service. I see music sharing as a way to get your music listened to.

I'm not convinced that pirating music alone has "ruined" the music industry. Let's look at the record companies who exploit their artists a little closer. Maybe that has more to do with it. Just my two cents.
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Music companies have always exploited their artists, always, and I am not defending them. The fact they were ignoring technological advances to keep their bottom line for that year, rather than looking at what was coming, was a major factor in this.

But I am not talking about a systemic change, like touring revenues (in which the label gets a huge chunk of as well) but a fundamental sea change. With Napster, only an idiot paid for music. And if you are not willing to pay for something, does it have value? When I was a kid (and we were done dodging T-Rexs), if I wanted music I had to get money, usually by working, then go to a record store, make a decision of what I wanted, purchase it, and take it home to consume it. It meant something. Hell, for me, it meant everything. It had value. I had hundreds of albums, and I knew all of them. Did I listen to the whole album? Damn right I did, because I paid for it. And then you get Napster, and anyone can get what I worked hard for, for free. And there is a lot of low-hanging fruit there because people would download stuff they never would have bought. But also, people downloaded songs that they would have bought. I am not even going to argue about how it took money away from artists, and it hit the smaller artists far harder, but they didn't have the resources to go after Napster. Ignore that equation. Music lost value to the consumer.

Record companies could have taken their heads out of their bottom lines to look forward and come up with a model that worked for them, the artist, and the consumer, but they didn't until later after the horse had left the barn. And that led, eventually, to streaming, where, for $10 a month, you can listen to whatever you want. And if you don't like what you hear, you hit skip. More than 20% of songs are skipped in the first five seconds. And, consequently, song intro times have reduced almost 80% from twenty years ago. It changed how music is made.

When was the last time you (general you, not you specifically, Purple) bought an album? (For me? Three months ago, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan. She can thank the mlas and the Music Challenge thread for that). Why would you? You can stream it all. Music no longer has value. And you can trace that back to Napster and those that came after it.
 
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