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A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us.
As Bono would have it, the fledgling songwriters of a decade ago were cashing in on their album sales. Which is weird, because the vast majority of them never had record deals, and those that did struggled to recoup their expenses.
Artists have always starved. It builds character. And however flawed it may be, file-sharing has opened more doors than it has closed.
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