mayaross

One thing that struck me about this is that all the messages from people worried their data are from men. Troy even states that explicitly: "very close to 100% of the emails I got were about men having accounts on the site".

Why is that? Is it because men are more likely to cheat, or because men are more likely to need the help of online services to do so?

I suspect both are true, but can say with confidence that the latter is definitely true. Women don't need sites to help them cheat; all they have to do is go out and they will be hunted down. As a woman I find this a clear sign of the remaining, quite sinister, gender inequality.

The other problem with this market as a business opportunity is that the audience is diminishing, aging and slow technology adopters.

Go to any classical music concert and you will see that under 30s are in the vast minority. Look at how many venues open each year playing modern popular music (ie pop, house, indie, etc) and how many open playing classical music. I'm an active classical music fan in London - one of the classical music capitals of the world - and I cannot name a single classical music venue that has opened within the past 3 years.

Your market is, quite literally, dying.

It's sad. It's a huge loss for us as young people. But the only way a classical music streaming service can survive is through association with one of the big (probably existing) platforms.