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i would really like it if someone would build a soundcloud/spotify-like abstraction on-top of mastodon/AP, i dream of those companies one day falling to pieces

Do you realize how much waste goes into just these two companies?

People should just download it, and those businesses would cease to exist and we would buy just a little more time

@ekis it's the industry. They're just working within the limitations that were established a 100+ years ago.

@skribe @ekis What would spotify on top of Mastodon look like? Are we reviving Napster here?

Some of us never stopped keeping our own music files. So a better file sharing system sounds interesting.

@mike805 @skribe Many artists have said this already

But there is basically like a music cartel, and they mostly get the money anyone is paying into Spotify or Soundcloud

Music should be free, your culture should not be directly related to your class, or material wealth or whatever people want to call it

@ekis @skribe I remember the utopian articles from the mp3.com days. How evil the record labels were and how wonderful things would be once they were dead.

Now artists miss the old days of merely being ripped off by record labels.

A lot of people have proposed utopian schemes to get musicians paid, by counting plays and paying out from some fund. Nobody has figured out how people discover new music in such a system.

@mike805 @ekis people love art, they just believe it's too expensive. That's why streaming (music/video/games) is so popular.

she hacked you

@skribe @mike805 streaming is popular because copyright laws create a system in which these companies can maintain an essential monopoly on your ability to play the song

All this pretense to what end?

Certainly wastes a lot of fucking energy

@ekis @mike805 you still haven't answered my questions.

@skribe @ekis I haven't even seen your questions. Pleas re post.