> you can't just assume that average person plays track they bought only 10 times over the lifetime. I don’t, I just shared my experience. But let’s say my use

> you can't just assume that average person plays track they bought only 10 times over the lifetime. I don’t, I just shared my experience. But let’s say my use is atypical and most consumers listen to a purchased track 1000 times. Then the track’s creators still receive more money per spin from iTunes than from Pandora. > you cannot forget of all external effects of 'discovery service' that Pandora is. Pandora not only is not replacing iTunes and other ways of purchasing the music, but is helping to increase the sales by exposing you to new artists you would never hear or normal radio. I believe most of that is true. Let’s hope it gets people to buy more music, not less. I’m not against Pandora as a service, I think it combines some of the greatest strengths of computers and the Internet. The blogpost was about how they compensate artists, which is what all my comments have been about.