Listening to radio requires special client hardware, and it's becoming increasingly hard to find something that will play radio these days. For a lot of people, streaming software is more readily available than radio when they want to listen to music.
"wouldn't an artist want the streaming service to pay more?"
And this attitude is exactly the problem. For starters, of course artists want more money. Artists (and labels) will always want more money, and always argue for more and more. Just because they want more money doesn't mean they deserve it.
But the real problem is this assumption that streaming services are required to make up for album sales. They believe they must be equally compensated and must make the same amount of revenue. Why should they be equal when they are not equal things?
Consider that if someone buys the CD today, that's all the money the label gets. The customer presumably has the music for the rest of their life. But a streaming customer might still be listening and creating revenue 5, 10, or 15 years from now. Yeah, streaming's never going to match sales the first week of release, but after a couple of decades it will bring in a whole lot more.
And isn't that the whole point of these companies pushing for these ridiculous copyright terms - to monetize the same content for a century or more?
Listening to the radio is fine if there's a radio station in your area that plays the music you like. With streaming you have a lot more say in what kind of music is being played - but otherwise it's still very similar to radio (with fewer ads).
The only improvement I've seen over CDs is 5.1 surround on DVD. mp3s are an improvement on portability, but since they can be easily made from CDs, it's easy to have both.
You can actually use html here and make links to digitialmusicnews.com and musictechpolicy.com. And rather than simply insult this website and say other websites are better, how about participating in the conversation in a constructive way?
The only real fix is that everything is automatically public domain upon creation - which is its natural state - and you must actually register it if you want copyright protection.
A system where every single bit of creation is under copyright the moment it exists is the root problem of copyright law.
The MPAA is doing what the studio execs tell them to do, which is go to Washington, play the bad guy, and take all the blame. They are a tool of the studios, not the boss of the studios.
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But demanding streaming sites simply pay more because of a drop in album sales is ridiculous.
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And this attitude is exactly the problem. For starters, of course artists want more money. Artists (and labels) will always want more money, and always argue for more and more. Just because they want more money doesn't mean they deserve it.
But the real problem is this assumption that streaming services are required to make up for album sales. They believe they must be equally compensated and must make the same amount of revenue. Why should they be equal when they are not equal things?
Consider that if someone buys the CD today, that's all the money the label gets. The customer presumably has the music for the rest of their life. But a streaming customer might still be listening and creating revenue 5, 10, or 15 years from now. Yeah, streaming's never going to match sales the first week of release, but after a couple of decades it will bring in a whole lot more.
And isn't that the whole point of these companies pushing for these ridiculous copyright terms - to monetize the same content for a century or more?
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The only improvement I've seen over CDs is 5.1 surround on DVD. mp3s are an improvement on portability, but since they can be easily made from CDs, it's easy to have both.
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And rather than simply insult this website and say other websites are better, how about participating in the conversation in a constructive way?
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A system where every single bit of creation is under copyright the moment it exists is the root problem of copyright law.
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