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> The reason they have that problem is that their logic for funneling subscription revenue to streams is broken Changing it to splitting out a users monthly pa
by Lewton 3y ago
> The reason they have that problem is that their logic for funneling subscription revenue to streams is broken
Changing it to splitting out a users monthly payment to what they're actually listening to, would make the abuse they're trying to stop easier and not harder (as it would mean all the money they're trying to launder will go to the correct artist instead of just some of it)
Not saying that that's a good argument for the current system, but it wouldn't fix the issue they're trying to solve
- doikor 3y agoYea there are better ways to fix the problem but the problem is selling that fix to the big labels. The current system gets them a larger share of the revenue so why would they be interested in changing it?
- grujicd 3y agoI would much rather prefer that my subscription money gets split between niche artist I'm listening to instead of going to Taylor Swift. I assume it's harder to calculate royalties, you can't keep single counter per track, you have to agregate listens within a month for each user. But that doesn't seem insurmountable. Or maybe it is on Spotify scale? I don't think any subscriber (i.e. people giving them money) would prefer current model over where your money goes directly to who you listen.
- boxed 3y agoLaundering would be easier yes. But extracting money from the system would be impossible. I was talking about the latter where you pay for an account of 10 usd/month and extract > 10 usd/month in stream revenue.