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They claim they pay 70% to labels, but labels own Spotify, so this means they’re not actually paying artists.
The recording industry has ALWAYS been pulling accounting tricks on artists.
the recording industry is an exploitative middleman that's obsolete in an age where you don't need a big company to press vinyl disks to get your music out there
Academic publishers? Ticket sellers?
at one point, that was the main platform of the Pirate Party: “Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”