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Originally Posted by lagavulin16  Most industry types aren't interested in free streaming due to the revenue it can provide.
Currently, you'd have to charge more than consumers are willing to pay to satisfy the monetary demands of the artists and labels. |
there's no more revenue in streaming than there was in radio. Spotify is a Radio model, not a retail model - and as the numbers get published, everyone is seeing this.
The model could evolve to either be more like radio (embedded advertising and polluted content) or more like retail (better per unit economics). But as it stands now it's neither one right now... but pretending to be a retail solution (which it's not) while functioning more like radio (but very poorly).