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		chimeracoder on Aug 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congratulations: You Killed LendInk And Denied Fel... Contrast to the marginal revenue (for the artist) for CD sales and iTunes downloads. The artist gets very little in any of the cases.

andreasvc on Aug 9, 2012 [–]

There was a blog post about Spotify by a musician which compared the figures, and IIRC Spotify's royalties were like 100 or 1000 times less, so yes, there's a significant difference.

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