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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by jefftk on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:37PM (#27497657)
Why do you say the music industry is destroyed? With streaming, music industry revenues are almost back to their late '90s peak, and the diversity of options today is incredible.
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by gentleman11 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @08:02PM (#27497843)
Music used to earn a lot of people a middle class income. Streaming only really benefits the top of the charts. Everyone else works part time and music innovation stagnates since risk is so much higher for anyone who actually wants to earn anything. App stores do this too, commoditizing apps - only 0.01% of apps make back their dev cost. So what if a handful at the top make a dump truck of money? Nobody but risk averse executives can afford to spend years at a time experimenting

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/9999-in-10000-mobile-apps-...

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