Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties

Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by hellbanTHIS on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:33PM (#10809519)

I don't know about abolishing copyright but charging $10 for a digital album is ridiculous. A buck for 10 songs sounds about right to me.

You can't make any money playing live though, unless you're in Pearl Jam you're basically scraping by as a glorified beer salesman and it's a pretty shitty existence.

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by sosborn on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @06:22PM (#10809730)

> I don't know about abolishing copyright but charging $10 for a digital album is ridiculous. A buck for 10 songs sounds about right to me.

I hate this argument so much. It assumes that the value of the work is simply in the physical reproduction and not in the artistic expression. If it is too expensive for you then sure, don't spend your money on it, but what right do you have to say what something like that is worth?

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by hellbanTHIS on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @07:30PM (#10810037)

I meant to say that's about the price it needs to be to get people buying music again. It's gotta be well within the impulse buy range.

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by learc83 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:34AM (#10811054)

>but what right do you have to say what something like that is worth?

About as much right as every other person who participates in the market.

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by sosborn on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:08PM (#10813672)

On an individual level sure, but there is no need to prescribe "acceptable" levels for an entire industry on behalf on everyone else.

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