Which didn’t pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.
Which didn’t pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.
Even the smallest artists are making more than 1000 streams yearly. The only ones they are hurting are AI generated songs.
Spotify takes 30 %, too. The ‘one third’ in the headline is just rounding.
And the question should be if digital markets and platforms should take 30 % or not. Because every platform does so from Steam to Apple App Store to Spotify.
Besides that Spotify offers more than Steam imho. Playlist creation, discovery algorithms, individualized playlist generation, AI DJs and if you consider Steam to also be a social platform, Spotify is too.
With less than 1000 streams per year.
This is solely to kick out the AI generated music, which is already taking a significant share of the payout from the musicians.
This change is not against smaller artists, but for them.
So the only reasonable take is, that we don’t pay enough for consuming music, right? Because you have no label taking a cut and streaming services are not profitable themselves.
Spotify made this quarter the first time a profit since it existence. So if you think artists aren’t paid enough, its either of these three:
We pay too little for consuming music.
The record labels take a too big share.
Spotify is really inefficient and could pay out more if they work more efficiently.
The only thing not possible is Spotify taking all the profit since they don’t make any.
Who cares for individual freedom as long as it isn’t you?
If you watch the guys over at hexbear and lemmy.ml thats a good thing because censorship is good, because it secures societal peace. I wonder how they explain that thousands of people use these tools then.
Not only someone using iMessage but at the same time not using Signal or Whatsapp? Thats the first time I’ve heard of either of these two.
WhatsApp for the older generation, Signal for the younger (Germany).
Its not really a problem being restricted to the US and Canada since they are the only countries having that ‘problem’. No one uses iMessage outside of the US.
SMS is by far the worst standard. If you care about privacy use Signal or even WhatsApp. They both are far superior.
I’m the only developer in an agency of designers
In the US. Outside of the US no one uses iMessage, not even iPhone users.
Even if you are starting out thousands streams is nothing. I have a few friends who have a band. Its really small, basically everyone who listens to them knows them personally. They have 20 monthly listeners, but almost all of their songs on their own have 1.000 yearly streams – because Spotify puts them randomly into their automatically generated playlists.
Meanwhile kicking all the ‘bands’ out with less than 1000 streams allows them to pay the rest more.