This is so dumb and I love it
This has the potential to be a fun card, especially the Pimblett vs Ferguson bout
You might as well have run into an alcoholics anonymous meeting shouting about wanting help setting up a bar.
Wish you success but I doubt you'll find much help on lemmy for a reddit community, many of us here have a low opinion of reddit in general.
Thanks :)
I guess, I just don't see many people getting something for free then deciding to go buy it out of the goodness of their heart... maybe I'm too pessimistic.
I try not to pirate music production software because I make some small money from my music, and I've personally seen companies go bust and get snapped up by Apple because everyone (me included) justified pirating their small plugins as "they're making lots of money anyway". But I justify pirating shit like Adobe to myself I hate paying a subscription to use software. I dunno maybe more people have this mindset than I realise and are happy to pay after 'trying before buying'.
I'm interested to hear responses from anyone who genuinely buys the music they enjoy after pirating it. Why would they not just buy it in the first place?
Ah come on you know what I meant.
What an absolute legend!
People say this all the time about Spotify, but it's actually a viable outlet for revenue if you're on a decent label who understands how to leverage playlists.
Obv that doesn't apply for freeform... but for styles like trance, techno, DnB etc it's not unheard of for a track to get 500k streams across a variety of playlists, which equates to $1500.
Got a sample preview of your favorite release?
I don't think it would be wise to dox myself here after I've made an unpopular comment!
I agree. I think people have taken my comment as a defence of the geoblocking, was just offering an example of why someone like a small indie musician may choose to do that. I do find it frustrating when I have to VPN to a different country to watch a video.
But the reason I geoblock one country isn't to be an arsehole, it's because Russia has no recourse for indie musicians like myself who have their music stolen. They have no law preventing music theft which is why it's rampant in that one territory (not saying it doesn't ever happen elsewhere). Pretty much the entire rest of the world has some sort of avenue where I can issue something like a dmca.
Hard to say really. I'm fairly sure if it was available online for free, less people would have bought it.
When you're talking only £2000 or so of sales for a small indie release, piracy makes a huge hit to sales. My more popular stuff like trance, the sales drop off a cliff the moment it's leaked. There was a huge problem with people on promo lists leaking pre-released tracks to warez sites, not sure if the main labels (eg ones like Armada, Anjuna etc) ever got to the bottom of it, but it really hurt the sales of people who aren't exactly making bank from their music
"This owl uses the immense crushing power of its talons to sever the spine of prey when it attacks. A strong person can squeeze your hand with about 70 pounds of force per square inch; the crushing power of a great horned owl’s talons is 200 to 500 pounds per square inch! "
Wow, that's some insane grip strength. Remind me never to shake hands with a great horned owl!
They haven't failed. They need advanced firepower and continued support. Putin from the start is relying on you lot sticking a spoke in the gears, and unsurprisingly conservatives are lining up to do his bidding.
You have a golden opportunity to boost US businesses (most Ukraine aid never leaves the US); hammer a rival, hostile nation; and prevent further encroachment on your allies. Further, all this comes at zero cost of US lives.
Or you could let Putin win.