Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
...and yet music industry revenues are on the up again.<p>If you can&#x27;t get something legally - because you actually can&#x27;t, or because you can&#x27;t afford it, it&#x27;s a &#x27;victimless crime&#x27; and you desperately want it - you&#x27;ll pirate it. But I think most people are happy to pay for the convenience of everything. £10 a month for Spotify is a no brainer for me. The problem happens when (label?) greed sinks in again and the streaming services fragment with &#x27;exclusives&#x27; on each. At that point, people end up picking one to spend their cash on, and they&#x27;ll pirate or stream a shitty version on YouTube the songs they can&#x27;t get on their streaming service.<p>You want to get more people to pay? Licence everything to everything - then the only people that will pirate are the ones that would never pay anyway. And I bet they&#x27;re a smaller subset than four in ten.