For the past three years the narrative around SoundCloud has been that it was stuck in the mud, that remixes and other derivative content were getting taken dow

For the past three years the narrative around SoundCloud has been that it was stuck in the mud, that remixes and other derivative content were getting taken down, that labels were forcing artists to take their content off the service. All of which was true, but the real narrative was that SoundCloud was going through a difficult and complicated process of developing a new business model for audio content in partnership with an existing industry that has done things a certain way for a long time. It's a shame that SoundCloud was forced to yield to the established music industry like this. The world doesn't need yet another way to play "artists as diverse as Avicii, Bob Marley, the Beatles and Justin Bieber" (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/13/soundcloud-universal-music-interview/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/13/soundcloud-universal-music-...).