Re: People will definitely pay for music.
" There's still the problem of middle-men and record execs sucking up most of the profits"
For every €10 paid out by Spotify to labels, artists get less than 20c and authors get slightly more.
So yes, that IS a problem, given that _everything_ related to the artist's material has already been 100% charged to the artist's account and is paid back out of the 20c. Labels aren't just double dipping, it's fullblown rentseeking behaviour.