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		dazc on Sept 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting ... Same thing with the music industry fighting torrents for years until finally accepting that people will gladly pay a fair price.

inversetelecine on Sept 22, 2023 [–]

Except, they still fight torrents.

prepend on Sept 23, 2023 | [–]

Do they? I haven’t heard of Metallica suing any single moms into bankruptcy in over a decade.

I think they are focusing their efforts on YouTube takedowns and stuff.

That and there’s very little music piracy due to Spotify/etc

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