I feel like you’re the one sane person who’s willing to voice their opinions. While I do agree that piracy is a service problem in many cases, it’s genuinely insane how quickly the goalpost changes when the service in question is paid. Not enough people realize that creatives can’t make content without a budget to work with, and that budget has to come from somewhere.
It feels like goalpost moving has become a national past time for most places.
The thing I currently struggle with, but haven’t found an answer to, is deciding where the balance lies between affordable services and content creators earning an appropriate living.
I absolutely love Spotify. My current job has me listening to music for nearly 11 hours a day not including what gets played at home. Leaving aside the issue of discoverability, if I had to buy all the different albums I listen to from all the different artists I listen to my music budget would be a significant percentage of my yearly income.
I am keenly aware that Spotify does not pay the musicians well. The current compromise that I have is I buy albums or merch from the artists that I listen to the most or up and comings I want to support. Not perfect but it works right now.
I mean other services do pay music creators a lot more, namely Tidal and Apple Music. My issue is that I hate the idea of supporting Apple, and Spotify has unique social features that other services don’t.
I feel like you’re the one sane person who’s willing to voice their opinions. While I do agree that piracy is a service problem in many cases, it’s genuinely insane how quickly the goalpost changes when the service in question is paid. Not enough people realize that creatives can’t make content without a budget to work with, and that budget has to come from somewhere.
It feels like goalpost moving has become a national past time for most places.
The thing I currently struggle with, but haven’t found an answer to, is deciding where the balance lies between affordable services and content creators earning an appropriate living.
I absolutely love Spotify. My current job has me listening to music for nearly 11 hours a day not including what gets played at home. Leaving aside the issue of discoverability, if I had to buy all the different albums I listen to from all the different artists I listen to my music budget would be a significant percentage of my yearly income.
I am keenly aware that Spotify does not pay the musicians well. The current compromise that I have is I buy albums or merch from the artists that I listen to the most or up and comings I want to support. Not perfect but it works right now.
I mean other services do pay music creators a lot more, namely Tidal and Apple Music. My issue is that I hate the idea of supporting Apple, and Spotify has unique social features that other services don’t.