lizard84
Abider
And a perfect example of the other side of the coin is this:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/vinyl-rips-on-youtube.698384/
Why pay for the tunes when you can just listen to them on youtube? To hell with MQA quality.
Because they're illegally sharing music which is easy to do but they don't have the rights to do it. Claims of "fair use" are flat wrong.
Edit- Within that thread is a link to an arstechnica story on a lawsuit against a youtube ripping service:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...g-in-copyright-lawsuit-targeting-youtube-mp3/
I found this section ineteresting:
'The lawsuit—which comes two weeks after a survey found that about 50 percent of people aged 16-24 now stream rip—names Philip Matesanz as the site's owner and operator living in Germany. The site did not immediately respond for comment.
The suit says Youtube-mp3.org has "tens of millions of users and is responsible for upwards of 40% of all unlawful stream-ripping of music from YouTube in the world."'
Paid for streaming is a niche, which makes Tidal MQA service and extreme niche. The future looks grim indeed.
Eventually they "You Tube" are going to be hit and hit hard. As a signal I'd imagine some collateral damage will happen and some individuals posting these type of drops will be made examples of.