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Originally Posted by kane
While music piracy may be down, it is still alive and well. Go to youtube and do searches for band's full albums. You might be surprised at what you find. I'm sure some acts and labels don't care if their full albums are up there, but I'm pretty sure there are plenty that do.
For example, Lorde's debut album has sold around 1.3 million copies worldwide. The full album on youtube has around 700,000 views. Again, maybe her label doesn't care if it is up there. She is a breaking your artist and that exposure can help. But, there are also many labels that just get tired of playing the whack-a-mole that is constantly trying to find and remove stuff.
With just about any major artists the day their full album comes out (and before that if it was leaked at all) you will be able to get it for free on youtube.
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The difference is people don't want to sit at their computer everytime they want to hear an album they like. They want to hear it on their headphones in the street, in their car stereo etc.
When you want to beat off you don't need to download it to go beat off on the subway, its all used behind closed doors anyway. And when they come back to the site the next day, the same video is still sitting there.