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I've thought about this. We aren't really getting rid of middle men. Rather, if what you proposes runs its course, we are shifting the middle man from old media
by mikeknoop 15y ago
I've thought about this. We aren't really getting rid of middle men. Rather, if what you proposes runs its course, we are shifting the middle man from old media distributors to... new media (internet) distributors.
What's to say streaming services wouldn't run up the price on artists once record labels are out of the picture? You could argue that artists could simply take their music to another service but if one service has A LOT of users (ie, Spotify) that might not be a viable option.
- jakubw 15y agoBecause streaming services wouldn't own rights to artists' work and they wouldn't be tying them down with multirecord deals. With these constraints lifted, there'd only be free market mechanisms left, which would force the services to be nice both to artists and users.
- danieldk 15y agoOr spread artists amongst competitive services, forcing us users to subscribe to multiple services. I'd rather take a copy of the music, and own the copy the rest of my life, thank you.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI thought the main advantage of the record companies was that they could loan artists large amounts of money to make and market a commercial record. Most musicians I know are poor and would make pretty poor business people. Unless spotify or apple decide to go into developing artists themselves.