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I've always hated paying for music (CDs/LPs) before figuring out how much I'm gonna like it. I currently subscribe to spotify but dislike how apparently so litt
by muxxa 12y ago
I've always hated paying for music (CDs/LPs) before figuring out how much I'm gonna like it. I currently subscribe to spotify but dislike how apparently so little revenue goes back to the artists I love.
I've often thought on a revolutionary model to turn the music industry on it's head, from the current gatekeeper/distributer model (which tries to fight against the 'promiscuity' of digital content) to a 'charitable' model, whereby a non-profit, trusted organization accepts a periodic donation from me and distributes royalties based on my actual listening history over a period of time (which could be adjustable at donation time if I prefer to give my money to an all-time favorite artist, or conversely to a new artist I want to hear more from).
The trusted organization would be where I'd go to download my open-source, torrenting music player & music discovery apps.
For this to work, you'd have to reinvent how to attribute a piece of music to an artist properly, in my ideal world middle men would be cut out, and the money would go directly to the composer/performer. The hard part, but the key to making me want to donate.
- Gobiel 12y agoThe non-profit organization you are talking about... isn't it a middle man ?
- hellbanTHIS 12y agoSomething like a Mozilla-run opensource p2p Rdio with periodic NPR-style fundraisers? Sounds good to me. The problem as always would be with the major labels, they won't go for anything that weakens their control, but you could certainly start with an indie label alliance of some sort.
- kalleboo 12y agoThere's been a lot of talk here in Sweden about expanding the role of the existing collecting societies[0] to cover the internet as well as a way of being able to loosen copyrights. Currently they collect money from radio stations, stores that play music, concert halls etc and redistribute it to copyright owners. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting_society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting_society