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I am a contemporary composer/musician on the giant format('have to be on if your anybody') called SPOTIFY.... and others.... and my music is very good. We as musicians spend thousands of dollars on equipment, thousands of hours on single songs and hours submitting, protecting music and guess what.................. 99% of Spotify musicians(really talented good ones) get nothing..... seriously. I get checks for like $5 every 6 months and last year had up to 3000 followers per month. It is exactly what Jon speaks of in the music sphere.

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Stop using the spotify pimps.

I'm a listener and I've never used spotify or anything like that.

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Yes! I buy hard copies of music (many hundreds of cds) so that I am NEVER at the mercy of a streaming service that jacks up the price as high as it can go!

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Way back in the early days of the www it was called "disintermediation" - it was a good thing - according to the creative destructive capitalism line of thought. You used to be under contract to a "recording company" who hired recording engineers and distributors up and down the line - all that's gone - and Spotify remains to rake in the revenue and you incur all costs to get it on the platform - is it owned by the CCP?

Physical media is no different - I own 5K+ classical CDs - very large portion of solo and chamber artist recordings now list the musicians as "Executive Producer" - Orchestral recordings are somewhat closer to the old model - still considerable support by European state radio entities, for example.

Somehow we need more creation and less destruction. Next time around?

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