If you are brave enough to wade through this 10 minutes of philosophical claptrap and at least skim through the 133 comments, you will better understand what is up with the music industry today. Not that they actually have a good explanation, but it will become evident. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfjjzZvYnkEMy bottom line 2 cents -
Humans love free music and distortion. :-)
...and drugs, (see YouTube comments)