So in other words, they are doing precisely what a traditional distributor does, only digitally and on a massive scale. Same with Spotify. When music was bound to physical media, distributios charged record labels, who paid royalties to artists. It's exactly the same now - contrary to popular belief, Spotify doesn't pay artists anything because it's a distributor, not a label. Plus ça change ....
So in other words, they are doing precisely what a traditional distributor does, only digitally and on a massive scale. Same with Spotify. When music was bound to physical media, distributios charged record labels, who paid royalties to artists. It's exactly the same now - contrary to popular belief, Spotify doesn't pay artists anything because it's a distributor, not a label. Plus ça change ....
So in other words, they are doing precisely what a traditional distributor does, only digitally and on a massive scale. Same with Spotify. When music was bound to physical media, distributios charged record labels, who paid royalties to artists. It's exactly the same now - contrary to popular belief, Spotify doesn't pay artists anything because it's a distributor, not a label. Plus ça change ....