Reply to post: Re: People will definitely pay for music.

Taylor Swift dumps Spotify: It’s not me, it’s you

Alan Brown Silver badge

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.

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