On 9/7/24 11:02, David W. Jones wrote:
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3ld9wy3eo>>
What a way to ruin things?
Yes, but also an exploit of a broken system.
Since the streaming services, mainly Spotify, are pooling the plays and
distributing income divided by total amounts of play, the system kind of
encourages swindling. This is amplified by introducing limits where
tracks with less than a certain amount of plays get zero pay. I believe
Spotify operates with no pay for tracks with less than a thousand plays
yearly, meaning that small artists are actually subsidizing the bigger.
If the streaming services instead took a small amount of your
subscription as admin fee and split the rest amongst the artists played
by your user (Bandcamp uses a system similar to this), there would be no
incentive at all for swindling. If your user plays only your music, you
would almost get your money back.
Best regards, Alf
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