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route66 on Oct 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Think piracy is killing the music industry? This c...

> Probably we will see less new justin timberlakes/drakes/britney spears level superstars, and more local/regional/niche stars.

This is being parroted around here for a while, but that does not make it more true. Big artists are less affected than small labels. See also: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/20/business/fi-cotown-i...

chc on Oct 8, 2013 [–]

This is kind of missing the point, which is that fewer artists will get to that level, not that artists already at that level will suddenly be forgotten.

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