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Spotify absolutely deserves to be singled out for its exploitative practices, especially since this company is largely responsible for musicians not being paid fairly for their hard work. It’s just a shame that there’s hardly anything to steal here other than people’s hard work, to which Spotify has contributed nothing - but that applies to all companies that are successful on the internet today. Without exception, all of these companies are built on the same platform logic: the content that these companies exploit is paid for with starvation wages, if at all (not at all in the case of LLMs).

Therefore, I cannot see anything positive in this because it does not change the underlying problem in the slightest.

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mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The major labels are still the biggest evil

Spotify & Co. make advance payments to the labels to be allowed to use their music catalogues. These advance payments are then recouped with the streaming revenues. However, if the revenue is less than the advance, the difference remains with the labels as “breakage”. If a streaming service pays a label US $1 million as an advance for the contract period, but the label’s catalogue is only streamed to the value of US $750,000, then the label has US $250,000 in additional revenue that does not have to be distributed to the artists.

…wordpress.com/…/the-music-streaming-economy-part…

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nevertheless, Spotify makes more profit than any music label, even more than all the remaining music labels combined. This is how it works today: music, literature, journalism, and art no longer exist according to this logic - only content. And as disrespectful as the term sounds, that’s how it’s paid for - with scrabs because that’s the business model.
  
  Your pirate approach is no longer up to date, because it is no longer directed against large corporations, but robs artists of the little they have left. This will only accelerate the trend: no one will try to make a living from art anymore. If you think that people will do it anyway because they want to express themselves, I think you are absolutely wrong.
  
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  - Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s not accelerating the trend one bit by opening it to everyone. Music labels and Spotify don’t plan on putting a stop to AI, they want to own it. The artists lost decades ago and siding with copyright juggernauts doesn’t help them on the slightest.
    
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  - mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Spotify do not make more profits than label let alone more revenus
    
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    DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    How Spotify’s $109 Billion Market Cap Stacks Up Against Other Music and Entertainment Companies
    
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