:flan_reaper:
Things like bandcamp will just keep happening if we continue rely on start-up style privately held corporations to handle distribution. Their goal is always going to be to either get bought out by the big fish, or join them.
What we need are artist cooperatives. If the platform itself is owned by the artits, it can't be sold out from underneath them.
Tagomago
@lordbowlich That leaves you with an irrelevant catalog for the foreseeable future, sadly, 'cause most recording artists don't own their work in the first place.
Be
@lordbowlich @dazinism @priryo Streaming is a fundamentally fucked idea and I don't have faith in anyone building something new that doesn't understand this from the start. Streaming is just a rebranding of DRM, sold as a way to solve nonexistent problems. It's a con the record industry used to take people's personal libraries away from them and put them under complete control of capital. There is no problem with downloading media once and saving it. Continually redownloading it is pointless.
:flan_reaper:
Digging into the site though it isn't really an adequate replacement since I don't really see anywhere to purchase and download the music files -- just streaming rights.
dazinism
@lordbowlich
Theres already a music streaming platform coop
https://resonate.is/ @priryo
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