Okay, so why don't the publishers - or the artists themselves, going indie - just tell Spotify to fuck off take their music off the service, and just sell it directly to the fans
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Replying to @arthur_affect
many artists already have you stupid dipshit! though many can't, being locked into shitty contracts with the publishers! the publishers are fine with it, though, as they, and spotify, are the real beneficiaries here!
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The publishers aren't fine with it, the publishers are weak and getting fucked over and are "dying old media dinosaurs" while Spotify and their ilk are extremely powerful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Like shit it's the publishers who are also being paid an insultingly low rate compared to what they were used to from every other licensee back in the day, it's the publishers who are in a panic over this
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Jay-Z created Tidal with the support of other artists and publishers because the music industry in general is getting their blood sucked dry by tech And they're hanging in there but it's a really uphill battle for them against "mainstream" services
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looks to me like the publishers are hanging in just fine. straight from the RIAA's mouth. https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ …pic.twitter.com/79dPhgHE88
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
even with that big dip in 2009 to 2014 or so, they were still making billions... and still exploiting the artists. why are you licking so much boot and sucking so much dick for a group of companies that top down do nothing for the artists.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
fucking get some goddamn perspective and some goddamn priorities and remember that the 'struggling' big publishers... aren't actually struggling. they are doing just fucking fine. they've adapted. while. still. giving. nothing. to. artists.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Like, seriously, that's the kind of offensive thing about this Randos on social media going "It would be so great if the publishing industry imploded tomorrow and all the big companies went out of business and every author was an indie self-publisher They would be set free"
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And meanwhile the actual working authors (and their elected union representatives) are all like "Holy shit no that's my worst nightmare" And then the randos call them brainwashed corporate bootlickers who don't know how their own jobs work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spacetwinks
Again, this was hashed out in public in great detail when people weighed in on Amazon vs Hachette in 2014 The authors defended the Big 6 for the same reason cab driver unions defend traditional cab companies Yeah they're predators like all capitalists but Uber is far worse
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