CM-003 Wintegrity  Nov 29, 2023
🌸 fact is, if you pay for Spotify you are giving the company $120 a year, but for the bands you listen to to collectively get $120 a year at $0.003 per stream, you would have to stream 40,000 songs, which is something in the realm of 5 hours of music a day depending on the length of songs you listen to. maybe you listen to 5 hours of music a day, I certainly do some days--maybe you even do that every day. but if you pirated all that music for free and spent $20 on either a merch item or going to a show from 6 bands then you've given $120 to artists without any going to a streaming service (and yeah they won't keep 100% of that the merch costs something etc but it's a hell of a lot more than a third of a cent per song) regardless of how many songs you listened to for free

this burned out music artist is just begging you to just torrent and soulseek and share with friends and stop feeding the corporate machine that's strangling music
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@winter The thing that makes Spotify work is the network effect. There was a really strong idea for a while, pre-crypto, is that the Semantic Web would be the next thing. that's what the web's creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wanted. Instead of “content silos”, individual artists could put their stuff on their own web pages with a little bit of standard metadata and people could build platforms that drew it all together in rich and interesting ways. People could build systems that could understand and interconnect with other systems. That was supposed to be Web 3.0.

But it got bogged down in an academic miasma and the term was hijacked by the cryptocurrency bros and whatever interoperability the content silos had are quickly being kneecapped or put behind prohibitively expensive paywalls. Funny how things shake out. Not, you know, ha-ha funny.

Nov 30, 2023 at 3:28amWeb