Originally Posted by Jody Whitesides
It's a damn good thing that DRS isn't in charge of copyright law. Everything free after a year of being available? That's insane. Exactly how do you pay for food, clothing, a home, and health doing that? How about a vacation once in a while?

I'm on Spotify, but the amount of money I make from them amounts to about $15 a month. It's incredibly low for all those streams. Especially from stream rates of about $0.007 a stream. F their discounted royalty rate. Time for them to pay the full amount without the discount.

That's how things get better, remove the "temporary" discounted royalty rate and have them fix their busted business model if they can't afford it.

BTW - Spotify does not make it easy to become a connected fan. They don't provide links to official websites. They don't allow links for bands to sell merch. They don't allow direct links for signing up on an artist's email list. They don't have links directly to things like Amazon or iTunes for direct purchase of a CD or digital album. There's at least 5 more things they could do to make it easier to interact directly from listener to artist and help the band make more money in the process. They don't do that.

While it might be good for the listener, it's absolute hell for the artist.


The same way you pay for food and clothing now.

Are you saying you currently sell enough records to live off?

If you are, you are doing it in a time period where people can steal all they like. So it hasnt hurt you.

As I said, people will steal anyway, always have and always will.

Have to adapt to change.

P.S. it's good for the seller too, as I pointed out, you have a chance to be heard on spotify, try getting even 100 streams from a private website.

You can't get enough people there.

Last edited by December Rock Star; 11/12/12 04:16 PM.