On: OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules

[gruez]

That's always been the case, eg. how they were latecomers to streaming.

[cubefox → gruez]

Streaming had to compete with digital music piracy. As a result, Spotify is impossibly cheap compared to buying individual albums or singles in the past. So musicians hardly receive any money from recorded music anymore. Nowadays they basically have only concerts left as a means to earn money.