Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I pay for YouTube because I hate ads and I use the music service heavily... I also pay (A LOT) for a MotoGP subscription, but that's sports, and unless I'm awake when there's a race being pirate streamed I'd be sol.

For everything else, i sail the salty seas

Artists are basically already not getting any serious royalty from streaming. Streaming is essentially free other than operating costs for the companies.

You can also listen to that latest track on the radio for nothing.

To fragment the market you'd have to have something so powerful that people would go to one place over another for lack of having it. The effect is surprisingly weak in the music segment, people just listen to other things.

My guess is that with TV/Movies streaming you generally sit down to consume a given piece of content in chunks of minimum 1hr, and people rarely watch an episode of one show back to back with another show. So having that content fragmented between services doesn't provide much friction to normal viewing.

Contrast that with music, where having to switch services to listen to a different album would be extremely disruptive to the way most people listen. The only way that would work is if the separate services were generally clustered by genre, like radio. Having said that, I'm a little surprised that niche music streaming services haven't popped up (like how you have Crunchyroll for anime, for example).

Songs are cheap. Ever heard of buying something for a song?

It's because that recording industry, the RIAA vs. the MPAA, has had a stranglehold on the industry and artists for much longer. They are much better at exploiting artists while paying them next to nothing.

TV streaming STARTED fragmented. Just it was all bundled together in a cable subscription. The (ineffective) moderator in that were the cable companies like Comcast, who were always trying to negotiate the price of a channel down. Suddenly with streaming, you could start your own service and getting dropped by someone like Comcast wasn't the death sentence it used to be. The TV content creators are dealing with the end user for the first time.

The music industry long ago learned they get better sales when all their vynal/cassettes/CDs are available at Kmart/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. The music industry DID fragment a bit with online streaming, but those quickly failed. And the artists soon realized that being cool and exclusive to iTunes lead to less money for them.

Yeah piracy more or less died down when Netflix blew up, made it available and easy to stream things legally and they had tons of content.

Now there are 50 services with its own subscription fee and their own library, and they pulled their content from Netflix so no service have a decent library.

So you either have to hop between subscriptions as you watch series and movies, or you pirate.

I don't pirate music because Spotify is good enough for me, but I guess it's just a matter of time before all the big record labels start their own shit service to stream their music.

Viewers have literally zero attention span, so if the talking isn't super high speed back to back without even a single second to pause for breath, people click off or scroll past.

Same with subtitles that flash up rapidly, a single word at at time.

That's the sorry state of affairs we are now living with.

It sounded like he was being sloppy about stitching together the audio from multiple takes, rather than a distinct decision.

But yeah, I can't stand that condensed run-on-sentence editing style that so many youtubers have adopted. It has an uncanny valley quality to it that's off-putting.

Yeah I don’t know when that started, but it’s absolutely annoying as fuck.

Only fatal? Jog it off, you'll be fine!