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Patrick H Corrigan's avatar

Bandcamp was recently purchased by gaming company Epic. I would expect to see similar things happening there eventually.

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Daniel McBrearty's avatar

Yes, that's already a year ago. Until now no change at bc though. And given that, unlike spotify, they've always been profitable, maybe it will carry on that way.

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Ciaran Moireach's avatar

Perhaps Bandcamp run at a profit because they donтАЩt pay artists for streams?

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Daniel McBrearty's avatar

They don't get paid for streams either. The limited streams you can enjoy there are free. But whenever fans actually pay for music they get about 20 points, and the sums involved, though modest for fans, are many orders of magnitude larger than anyone anywhere is paying for a stream. Basically they have a much fairer and more viable business model that assumes music has some value, rather than an exploitative one which ends up screwing everyone, and that's why they make profit.

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