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Blame music labels, Spotify tried to propose other models of payment to artists, always blocked by labels with the threat of removing their catalogues in case t
by piva00 3y ago
Blame music labels, Spotify tried to propose other models of payment to artists, always blocked by labels with the threat of removing their catalogues in case that goes through.
As in any passion-driven industry: artists/creative gets shafted and exploited by middlemen (music labels, game studios/publishers, movie studios, etc.) solely because there's a never-ending stream of passionate individuals that will be exploited to have their creations out in the world.
- echelon 3y agoAfter Napster fired a warning shot across the bow of the music industry, it was Apple that came to collect [1]. Paying just $0.69 or $0.99 for songs without having to buy a full album represented a tectonic shift. But who needs to buy a song? Spotify (and Pandora, Grooveshark, etc.) brought the same streaming feature from YouTube and Netflix to music. That was even more consumer friendly. [1] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1413534752699830275 https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1413534752699830275
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAh Grooveshark. What a place.