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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by jbreckmckye on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:16AM (#16105577)
But then why haven't "Spotify for Journalism" projects ever worked? How does a business go from $2 per paper to 0.2c per article? Why are so many artists so unhappy with their meagre Spotify royalties? I think this falls under my "proven to scale" condition.

[In reply to the below - as we have reached the thread limit: there will _always_ be free competition. The problem is: without advertising, the only players left will be those with deep pockets, and deep interests to protect - the state, churches, oligarchs and political groups]

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by UweSchmidt on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:19AM (#16105601)
Because there is infinite free / ad-based competition crowding out paid services.
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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by nkristoffersen on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @10:28AM (#16106802)
Regarding royalties: My understanding from school is that radio royalties are paid out by samplings from radio playlists. If you song was in the sample then you got paid, otherwise, nope!

Don't the current streaming tech pay artists per literal play? If so, wouldn't that mean more money to the artists since all plays are counted?

My understanding is a bit outdated now perhaps, but would like to understand better if someone knows better :-)

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