It would profit musicians better if a listener pirated five albums and sent $2 to each of the artists than to spend $10 for a month of Spotify and listen to those same five albums. It would profit musicians better if a listener pirated 1000 songs and sent each artist $0.01 than to pay $10 for a month of Spotify and listen to those same 1000 songs 10 times each in the course of that month. We musicians make fractions of a cent for each stream.