I think the point with mr.byrne is that everywhere the old big company labels have equity on the system it will be corrupt. If you 'discover' music through Spot

I think the point with mr.byrne is that everywhere the old big company labels have equity on the system it will be corrupt. If you 'discover' music through Spotify and every song played will give royalty to an artist you might think there is more possibility that a RIAA song gets 'recommended'. It might not be the case, though. Music produced my the RIAA labels have always been more popular, thats why they are commercialy successful, thus advertised, and with more possibility to be 'recommended' But why independent musicians feeding the old monster? There are lots of really good music services without RIAA people involved. (i might be wrong on this) rdio, tunein, grooveshark, tunecore, last.fm, beatport Today music services are the equivalent record stores. some of them have lots of RIAA produced pop music, some others will get only independent labels.