Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’m glad we have this, instead of a “different Spotify per music publisher”.
What would be wrong with a model where artists had their own website where they could distribute their music? That’s what Faircamp does. Then people could actually download it, rather than use a companies crappy client with DRM.
red@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I was referring to the sharding that happened with video streaming services. It used to be Netflix had mostly everything, in the start, similar to Spotify. Now there are services per publisher that contain their own catalogues.
Fuck. That.
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So you’d rather a monopoly?
red@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Spotify isn’t the only service currently.
Like I said in my op: it’s good service for the consumer. It might not be if enshittification ensues.
But compared to video streaming, it’s awesome.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Are you seriously throwing might into this sentence?
I suppose you could say when you throw a ball up in the air it might come back down but that is kind of being disingenuous isn’t it.
Here’s another thought, **doesn’t it impact the quality of the service for the consumer if the workers doing the labor to create the substance of the service, the basic thing that gives the service value to customers, are not being rewarded in a sustainable fashion for their time and labor? Do you really think all your favorite artists are going to keep cranking out music in this environment? More importantly, do you think your favorite artists would have ever been able to invest the time and effort to get big enough to become that 1% of the successful musicians if the environment was as hostile towards musicians earning money as it is now?
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, dude… Spotify doesn’t have exclusive streaming rights to its music
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They were talking about how each publisher was making their own streaming service as if the solution would be to have them all under one roof aka a monopoly.