Zoe Keating

Zoe Keating is always worth-while reading about this, including being open about where her royalties come from. For eg (this was the post that got represented as "pay me in data"): http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/35737991443/what-i-want-from-interne… (there's a spreadsheet with the breakdown in there) That one got featured in the NYT, prompting a couple of follow-ups: http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/41955905309/a-blog-about-an-email-ab… http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/42057406771/where-does-the-filthy-lu… (I loved the internet-expertise implied by Several people advised me to consider touring as a revenue stream since “that is where artists make most of their money”.!) More pertinently though: "Live performance is usually my revenue stream with the highest expense ratio: flights, hotel rooms, commissions, crew, advertising, etc…"

Zoe's seemed to be more about music specifically. As far as ads, she was going to be forced to have ads, not forced to remove them. http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-… Maybe this isn't the only thing she's written about YouTube though.

Isn't that a similar issue [1] to what Zoe Keating went though not long ago? [1] - http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-…

Here's a link to the transcript that's referenced in this article [0] [0] http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/109312851929/clarity

Basically, yes. She points it out pretty clearly in http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/108898194009/what-should-i-do-about-… There are some additions: 2a) … The release on Youtube must happen at the same time and in a specified quality. 2b) … Everything that has been uploaded by her before will be deleted. The obligation to release on Youtube is of course completely unacceptable. I like to think it would be quite illegal in many countries outside the US as well.

Some additional data: "Streaming music payments: how much do artists really receive?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keating-spotify-… "My $treaming Data" (from Zoe Keating) http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/16086277627/my-treaming-data Total streams for 1 month: 6926 Total amount earned: $32.07 Average price paid per stream after CDBaby’s 9% cut: Spotify $0.003339 Rhapsody $0.0091 Napster $0.015224 Rhapsody has a fixed stream rate. I don’t know the respective formulas for Spotify or Napster, but price-per-stream varies: Napster: $0.01658813 to $0.01721973 Spotify: $0.00102187 to $0.01158124 Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920

The caveat with disruption: Sometimes an industry which is very tightly regulated, or which has a lot of middlemen, has these obstructions for a reason. A taxi service holds enormous opportunities for kidnappers or rapists. I'm a man, which basically disappears the rape risk, but there are many Central and South American countries where getting in a taxi could be quite risky for me, and could involve me disappearing. even some parts of Mexico. Recent related stories make Uber look really bad: http://boingboing.net/2014/11/19/uber-can-track-your-one-night.html http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-di… http://www.buzzfeed.com/anitabadejo/uber-but-for-real-estate-disputes#… Also, just to state the obvious, both Uber drivers and regular taxi drivers have logical incentives for driving unsafely. In this context, I have no problem with governments wanting to regulate Uber literally to death, at least outside of California. I understand cabs are completely unacceptable garbage in California, and the HN audience definitely skews Californian, but cabs are gold in Chicago, London, and New York, and probably quite a few other places too. Maybe Germany is one of those places. Also, although I'm sympathetic to libertarians, disruption doesn't always fix things. The Internet crippled the music industry, but introduced stacks of new middlemen in the process. Ask Zoe Keating how that "democratization" turned…