Longer term, if subscription music rental can’t work as a standalone business, then it will only exist as a service offered by corporate behemoths to draw customers into the parts of their businesses where they do make money, like selling phones, service plans, or merchandise. And when the distribution of an entire art form is controlled by just two or three nation-state-sized companies, artists and labels will have even less leverage than they do now to set fair rates, the music promoted to fans will be controlled by a small handful of gatekeepers, and more and more artists will be hit with the one-two punch of lower rates and less exposure. The net effect for music as a whole is worrisome.
Quelle: Everything is Terrific: The Bandcamp 2016 Year in Review « Bandcamp Daily
Das ist genau die Situation in welcher die Musiker und Musikerinnen selbstverschuldet enden werden, weil sie glauben, dass die grossen Musikkonzerne ihre Interessen vertreten und hoffen, dass diese dereinst für sie in einem geschlossenen System Geld verdienen werden, lassen sie es zu, dass am Ende sowohl die Musikschaffenden als auch die Musikliebhaber im Netz zu den Verlierern gehören werden.
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