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How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ask the nearly completely dead newspaper industry or the dying book publishing industry. History repeats itself.

This artistic medium has met its proverbial printing press. The way to get paid for music is not by streams. They're worthless. I could get more streams than your favorite local Indy band using just white noise. Streams are worthless. About as valuable as getting eyes on any comment in any thread. Music is commoditized.

Just as writing was.

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