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This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer's income actually goes to the artists.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

I don't know about Deezer, but Spotify is raising prices while telling artists they will no longer be paid at all unless they reach a certain threshold of popularity. So they're boiling the frogs on both ends.

The middlemen who neither create nor appreciate music will still do OK though.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Problem is, Spotify has always been making a loss, so I’m not sure what side I’m on here

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The great problem is that, as it turns out, as always when it comes to mass media distribution services (ie: YouTube, twitch, etc), bandwidth is expensive, having servers around the world to have proper content delivery is expensive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If only there was a protocol they could use to allow customers to share files with each other, using their own bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You pass the storage problem to the user. How do you know which files to host where if most users watch most content once?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The ones other people are watching at the same time.

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