With the current piracy paradigm, the industry is actually more profitable.

Because I am more intelligent than the fuckwads who luckboxed their way into massive multicorp power, if I was in their position I would do everything I could to freely proliferate the music I produce. Not doing so is a very basic econ mistake due to things like enormous gaps in advertisement power, consumption power, behavioral econ, and other stuff. The dumbshits in the industry who haven't been leaping all over improving free sharing while hugely boosting their profits are dumbshits who don't deserve the money they lucked into

Put in very simplistic terms, people are very thrifty when they have the money. These people will spend a lot more money for a slight improvement. They buy the 1k$ seats or the special edition disk. There is a colossal gap in purchasing power that puts the vast majority of people out of this category. Giving them free music is some of the best advertising imaginable, and it does nothing to hinder sales since when people have the money they spend it on the best product they can.

The industry dipshits make more money when piracy exists, yet they either don't know it or are so greedy they want to guilt trip people into thinking they're doing wrong and sue them for even more money. The most likely scenario is actually the former since people, even business leaders, are generally fucking retards. Besides, our current patent law would be considered heinous and criminal compared to original intent. Besides again, if you're stealing from a multinational corp, you're not stealing. These monstrosities are assraping all of human society. They siphon off insane amounts of limited resources away from circulation from the populace. As long as the taxes these cuntfucks pay is substantially lower than an immigrant farmer, "stealing" from them is really heroing and the right thing to do.

The mega wealthy have convinced us that they deserve five hours of anal raping a night, and when we complain and only want to be molested for four hours we think we're taking what we don't deserve