One doesn’t need to look much farther than Spotify to see how large corporations exploit their market power to disadvantage artists unless they’re wicked famous.
Spotify did the legwork of putting the platform in place tho. Personally I tend to buy from Bandcamp, but you won’t find everything you’re looking for.
Yeah, Spotify definitely did make a global platform which people could rely on. But that doesn’t make it immune to criticism for their monopolistic behavior. You wouldn’t say the same thing about Google - who uses their market position to set their own prices for advertising, etc.
It’s not like there isn’t any competition out there to Spotify (Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Prime Music,Tidal are the top ones that come to mind), the artists are free not not publish their music there if they disagree.
…and sometimes the poor authors and artists… I’d hope that artists and creators retain the freedom to choose.
One doesn’t need to look much farther than Spotify to see how large corporations exploit their market power to disadvantage artists unless they’re wicked famous.
Spotify brought back the music industry from the dead.
Sure. Like any other large org that capitalizes on other people’s labor.
Spotify did the legwork of putting the platform in place tho. Personally I tend to buy from Bandcamp, but you won’t find everything you’re looking for.
Yeah, Spotify definitely did make a global platform which people could rely on. But that doesn’t make it immune to criticism for their monopolistic behavior. You wouldn’t say the same thing about Google - who uses their market position to set their own prices for advertising, etc.
It’s not like there isn’t any competition out there to Spotify (Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Prime Music,Tidal are the top ones that come to mind), the artists are free not not publish their music there if they disagree.
Ask any artist about this, and they will tell you they are going to post on Spotify regardless of the earning potential due to exposure.
I thought we were talking about exploiting smaller artists, not anti-competitive behavior.
They are not mutually exclusive.