They claim they pay 70% to labels, but labels own Spotify, so this means they’re not actually paying artists.
The recording industry has ALWAYS been pulling accounting tricks on artists.
the recording industry is an exploitative middleman that’s obsolete in an age where you don’t need a big company to press vinyl disks to get your music out there
Academic publishers? Ticket sellers?
at one point, that was the main platform of the Pirate Party: “Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”
If your business isn’t profitable without exploiting workers [artists], then your business doesn’t deserve to exist.
You people from the logical timeline have no business coming here and telling us idiots how to run things! Go back to your utopia!
so many companies would rather engage in collective punishment rather than just behave – see a similar thing with gamble-boxes in video games, companies are happier blocking countries rather than just publishing the odds/payouts/return-to-player …
It shows they make a lot more money by being unethical than by being ethical. If it were just a little more money they could just do the right thing and raise prices a little. It’s the same reason tech companies won’t let you pay not to be tracked: they make more money from accumulating information about you than you’d ever be able to afford to pay them.
Oh no. Whatever will people do. I guess they just won’t be able to find music.
Fucking good riddance to Spotify.
Bandcamp! 🫠
bandcamp is the only website where I’ve paid for music ever
And it’s been completely gutted and is going to rot into another corpo garbage heap.
Oh no. What happened? It’s been ages since I’ve used it.
They (under Epic Games) fired half their workforce. More specifically pretty much everyone who wrote for Bandcamp Daily. Thats about the only change so far.
It’s also been passed now from epic to songtradr a business to business music company.
Yeah but nothings happened with it since then. Songtradr also owns 7digital which is basically the same thing and they havent ruined 7digital.
Two words that send corporations into a raging fury
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