Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Spotify could charge ten times their current price - indeed, should have been, for nearly the entire catalogue of western music? even at $100/mo it would have been a steal - and even so, they wouldn’t be paying artists significantly more, or even at a reasonable rate.
The model is the problem. The middleman is the problem. The service itself is the problem. It can never work in a way that pays artists fairly as long as it requires human oversight, administration and intervention.
Get an AI to do it right, though…
fukurthumz420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thank you. the fact that we aren’t rioting to have more automated services that pass the cost benefit on to the people is something i’ll never understand. we have the tools to build utopia but they can;t figure out how to make enough money from it.
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The problem is, thinking that utopia will have money. Silly noobs
fukurthumz420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
exactly