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The only way I ever listened to as many artists as I do on Spotify is through borrowing friends' hard drives to copy their music, and my selection was much more limited. Spotify pays the artists something and it lets me know when there are concerts too. I'm not saying it's good, but it is uniformly better I think.

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That something is called exposure, not money.

Oregon Trail says you can die from too much of it.

Streaming is the majority of music revenue today

Not from this listener.

When they can agree on revenue sharing that doesn't neglect the artist on which their service is built upon I'll start looking at them again.

70% of revenue is more than artists get from any other source, equal to digital sales.

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