Are digital torrent/blog bootleg compilations releases? (asking again)

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Costs and Logistics

Anyone can make a digital compilation and “distribute” it to millions (see above playlist). Creating CDs, however, has a much higher cost, and they still need to be distributed.

How are you going to do that? Offer them on eBay and hope someone buys them? Or offer them for free, then package and ship them (also for free), because no one would be willing to pay for home-burnt CDs with pirated music?

I think these make more sense as playlists in ListenBrainz

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There’s still a difference between Youtube playlists (which by definition can only contain songs that are available otherwise) and collecting and distributing actual audio files (which might not be available anywhere else).