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    Sometimes it does. Piracy drives up sales of traditional media (think: vinyl), as well as increasing crowd size at live performances. Also, merch sales scale with awareness of an artist. All of these things equal the payout of millions of plays on spoffy.

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      Except that using spotify does all of that as well.

      I’m not saying that spotify is good. But thinking piracy is better for the artist than spotify is delusional.