Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists:: The Uruguayan Parliament approved an amendment to the country’s copyright law last month
Oh well, I suppose everyone will lay down and die with no access to music. What will artists do without that all important half a peso for 5000 streams?
Cash money says there’s already a native competitor just waiting to get that money. If not there will be soon. Maybe people will just buy records again, shit. Uruguay isn’t doing half bad, financially, maybe they’ll bring tapes back.
It has been quite something to see American tech companies rolling out across the world trying to pull that same old “sign the EULA or lose everything” bullshit and it’s just not working for them. Too bad we can’t kick them in the dick like other nations can.
Spotify is Swedish.
Cash money says there’s already a native competitor just waiting to get that money
There isn’t and probably won’t be. At least not one with a library even half a size to that of spotify. People will probably flock to some competition like apple music or youtube music (neither of those services, as they are not very popular, seem to have said anything about this copyright law amendment). Also a senator already pointed out that if you have a valid argentinian credit card (there’s one very easy to get here), you can just register as an argentinian and pay less than a dollar instead of the seven dollars it costs here as a turnaround.
We can… We’re just too busy arguing over immigration, what gay/trans people and women are allowed to do, where the line is between church and state, and to what extent guns should be a part of our society… Oh and Trump.
After reading the whole article, I still don’t know what Uruguay wants to happen.
I mean, it sounds like they want their artists to recieve fair compensation.
I see that not everyone’s a cynic, yet.
What does that mean, though?
Spotify already paid rights holder (…the record labels, which is the one supposed to pay the artists). Under the new law, its ill defined which could make spotify pay to artists on top of paying the record labels, thus double the pay.
And that’s exactly why Spotify is leaving.
So they admitted here that they don’t pay artists fairly.
Fuck Daniel Ek.
Big Tech = Evil Tech
Good on the Uruguayan Parliament. For profit companies understand one thing, money. If enough people would understand this and be willing to deal with some inconvenience, companies like Spotify would come around surprisingly fast.
See, this is one of the reasons why I haven’t listened to music in almost a decade. Paying fairly to artists is provably unaffordable for the average joe, unless a shady workaround like the streaming service subscription exists (and even then, that barely fills the belly of the artists that dedicate exclusively to art).
Physical records make good money for the artists, if it weren’t for the greedy discographies of course.
Firehawk52’s Guide got you
So basically unaffordable for the people in that country?
There is VPNs so who cares 🤣🤣…
Anyone who doesn’t know how to use a VPN?
So people who have smartphones but down know how to download apps? That doesn’t sound like a statistically significant amount of people.
There shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know how to use a VPN in 2023.
Have you met people?
Did you know what “shouldn’t” means?
Nope. I have no concept of language.
Same
Considering that there are 0 Uruguayan artists on Spotify, it shouldn’t make any difference.
Citation needed*
I was looking at a map the other day with my buddy Joe from New York, and I pointed at a blob in South America and said “Hey what’s that?!” He said “Uraguay.” I said “Yeah. I’m aware and comfortable with my gender, thanks. But what is country on the map?”
Spotify claims that “because of streaming, the music industry in Uruguay has grown 20% in 2022 alone.”
Yeah, sure, you must be totally right.
2 more people registered. Damn that’s a lot
