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Can someone ELI5: Why is it so hard to just split my monthly subscription money on all the artists that I listened to, proportional to their air time to the tot
by egeozcan 3y ago
Can someone ELI5: Why is it so hard to just split my monthly subscription money on all the artists that I listened to, proportional to their air time to the total listening time? I really don't get it
- fundatus 3y agoBecause that would be extremely complex and expensive to do for a negligible effect.
- orangesite 3y agoI'd argue this would be a lot simpler and cheaper to setup than the byzantine distribution system we currently have in place. It would also make the economics of streaming viable for the majority of artists rather than the small pool of folk raking in the bulk of the money.
- fundatus 3y agoHow? The current system is super simple: revenue * 0.7 = total payout total payout / no. of streams = payout per stream payout per stream * streams of an artist = payout for artist In the proposed system you'd have to calculate the payout per stream on a per-account basis and have additional complexities like how to handle family accounts etc.
- alexcannan 3y agoComputers are very good at doing these calculations
- fundatus 3y agoObviously, but as I said it's much more complex and therefore more expensive to do. With a negligible effect.
- orangesite 3y agoa) SQL queries are not expensive. b) As I said, the effect for the vast majority of artists would be quite the opposite of negligible.
- rchaud 3y agoIt's not hard. The company would simply prefer to take your money and spend it on whatever they want. If people could decide how their money would get split up, they couldn't give Harry and Meghan $25m, let alone Joe Rogan $250m.