Cow have the streaming platforms, and Spotify above all else, which have established themselves with music professionals and listeners by offering a way out of the crisis to the chaotic 2000s, become the bad guys of this year 2020? To tell the truth, we felt it coming to Days, the journalists who read the three previous seasons of The stream party know well that all the criticisms which are made to streaming today have been well known since pfiouuuu… at least always. Criticism of the economic model of music is even a never-ending story. So let’s get on a hairy dragon to tell it.
In the mid-2000s, the music economy was in ruins. The perfect storm created a few years earlier by mp3 (compressed music), broadband and Napster (direct exchanges between Internet users) shattered a century of business. Too rigid, too focused, too hesitant to go digital, the majors of the sector like the great managers of law (Sacem in France) have failed to give birth to a new music economy and have become angry with listeners in the process. – the fans of their artists. But these eternal actors, who have locked the world of music for decades already, have achieved one thing: to retain their right to authorize (or not) the circulation of their catalogs of works.
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