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As you point out, they mostly did this before they were large companies (where the public choice questions are less problematic). Seems like the breaking of the

by benced 1y ago

As you point out, they mostly did this before they were large companies (where the public choice questions are less problematic). Seems like the breaking of these laws was good for everybody.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Seems like the breaking of these laws was good for everybody. Are all music creators better off now than before Spotify?
- megaman821 1y ago
  The music pie is bigger now but it is split between more people. Spotify brings in the most revenue for musicians as a whole.
  - oblio 1y ago
    Is that why the biggest source of income for musicians these days are live shows? Streaming basically killed recording income for 99.9999% of musicians.
  - dathinab 1y ago
    Yeah, but like another post said it killed a lot of other income streams. And Spotify is a bad example as it ran into another psudo monopoly with very unreasonable/unhealthy power (the few large music labels holding rights to the majority of main stream music). They pretty much forced very bad terms onto Spotify which is to some degree why Spotify is pushing podcasts, as they can't be long term profitable with Music (raising prices doesn't help if the issue is a percent cut which rises too :/ )
dathinab 1y ago
they where already big when they systematically broke this laws breaking this laws is what lifted them from big, to supper marked dominant to a point where they have monopoly like power that is _never_ good for everyone, or even good for the majority long term what is good for everyone (but a few rich people and sometimes the US government) is proper fair competition. It drives down prices and allows people to vote with their money, a it is a corner stone of the American dream it pushes innovation and makes sure a country isn't left behind. Monopoly like companies on the other hand tend to have exactly the other effect, higher prices (long term), corruption, stagnating innovation, and a completely shattered American sound pretty bad for the majority of Americans.

by benced 1y ago

As you point out, they mostly did this before they were large companies (where the public choice questions are less problematic). Seems like the breaking of these laws was good for everybody.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

>Seems like the breaking of these laws was good for everybody. Are all music creators better off now than before Spotify?

megaman821 1y ago
The music pie is bigger now but it is split between more people. Spotify brings in the most revenue for musicians as a whole.
- oblio 1y ago
  Is that why the biggest source of income for musicians these days are live shows? Streaming basically killed recording income for 99.9999% of musicians.
- dathinab 1y ago
  Yeah, but like another post said it killed a lot of other income streams. And Spotify is a bad example as it ran into another psudo monopoly with very unreasonable/unhealthy power (the few large music labels holding rights to the majority of main stream music). They pretty much forced very bad terms onto Spotify which is to some degree why Spotify is pushing podcasts, as they can't be long term profitable with Music (raising prices doesn't help if the issue is a percent cut which rises too :/ )

dathinab 1y ago

they where already big when they systematically broke this laws breaking this laws is what lifted them from big, to supper marked dominant to a point where they have monopoly like power that is _never_ good for everyone, or even good for the majority long term what is good for everyone (but a few rich people and sometimes the US government) is proper fair competition. It drives down prices and allows people to vote with their money, a it is a corner stone of the American dream it pushes innovation and makes sure a country isn't left behind. Monopoly like companies on the other hand tend to have exactly the other effect, higher prices (long term), corruption, stagnating innovation, and a completely shattered American sound pretty bad for the majority of Americans.