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You live in a world where data can be reproduced practically infinitely for almost no cost. And you've made your living producing what is effectively data. Then you call the people who reproduce the data thieves.
If I try and make my career selling something that has ZERO scarcity, I have no right to bitch and moan and hurl moral indictments at people for refusing to give me money for it.
There is no objective price for your goods, buddy. That's not how the world works. Price is dictated by supply and demand. If the supply of a good is infinite, what do you expect the value of the good to be? You are not owed $100 just because you decided that's what you wanted to charge, you are only owed what you can entice people to pay you.
Sure, using guilt against your fanbase is an interesting way to entice people to pay more for your product than they need to, but that doesn't mean your moral claim has any legitimacy, and the people who buy that argument are an ever diminishing minority.
Free art is a good thing. Free art is art done for arts sake. Free art is passion. You are investing yourself, you own time and money into an endeavor because you want to do it, not because you want to turn a profit. What is art without personal investment?
Does the age of information mean it is impossible to make a living in music? Hell no. There are lots of things that cannot be easily reproduced, like the concert experience, like merchandise, etc. And the costs of producing music are likewise diminishing. What it does mean is there will be fewer millionaires. There will be more and more passionate artists and fewer multi-national conglomerates running an industry.
This is the age of information, there is no going back. Calling for a return to the horse and buggy is a futile endeavor. The world has changed, and you must change with it.