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   Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 00:53:04 JST Aram Sinnreich

   Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

   In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/spotify-earnings-profitability-subscribers-1236060081/

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 08:17:58 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @aram

     Slave labor is back.

     The industries currently built on slave labor:
     1. Retail monopolies like Amazon, Walmart, and Target
     https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

     2. Music distribution monopolies like Spotify
     https://www.billboard.com/business/publishing/spotify-sued-mlc-bundling-cutting-songwriter-royalties-1235684122/

     https://www.musicweek.com/publishing/read/mechanical-licensing-collective-files-legal-action-against-spotify-alleging-unpaid-royalties-in-us/089821

     3. Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit
     https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/

     https://omr.com/en/daily/eddit-google-affiliate-spam

     https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/unpaid-moderators-internet-reddit-facebook-1.7267817

     4. Browser & search monopolies like Google
     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/10/google-underpaid-workers-illegal-pay-disparity-documents

     5. Societal
     https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1972

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     Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 18:57:18 JST Personne

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     @aram
     Provide a good service --> create a monopoly --> once the monopoly is set --> reduce features --> insert ads --> make them pay for basic features --> take the users and content creators hostage, since they can't move elsewhere --> extract all possible value for yourself. Karl Marx wrote about Spotify, in the 19th century, Cory Doctorow wrote about it today: Enshittification.
     It stops when we boycott their arses.

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     Franceska Mann (franceskamann@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 18:57:21 JST Franceska Mann

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     @aram
     Thank you for the heads up. I am deleting the app now, and my husband will do the same. We gotta support artists while they’re alive. Otherwise, we don’t get new music.