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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by __MatrixMan__ on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:28PM (#43210083)
Oh sure, I wasn't trying to propose that the coupling of usage to payment be mandatory. It's just that that's the setting I'd use because manually adjusting my payment settings sounds like work to me.

I'm just saying that paying the artist and handling the bits are totally separate things and if we want to challenge the existing model we should use something that decouples them in a way that demonstrates that the bad deal that artists are getting from Spotify is not the only option.

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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by rglullis on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:54PM (#43210590)
If you know the artists or anyone who would be interested to invest some time (and just a bit of money) to make this happen, let me know.

I have setup this system where people can set up how much they want to pay each artist per month (out of a fixed budget), and anyone that signs up to my service [0] gets an account on our Funkwhale server [1] where they can upload and promote their work. I take zero commission from these payouts, the only thing I need is to have content creators who prefer to pay a flat $29/year to have this instead of giving out 8%-12% of their earnings to Patreon.

[0]: https://communick.com

[1]: https://communick.stream

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