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		cubefox on July 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music indus... And of course in 2012, Eastern Europeans started to pay for their music, right? No? Maybe they were pirating it because piracy is free.

zirgs on July 27, 2023 [–]

A lot of them - me included -started to use Spotify, because it is cheap and convenient. It really converted lots of pirates to paying customers.

There simply was no legal option to buy music digitally before that. CDs were overpriced and inconvenient.

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