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title: Streaming to the masses
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  Most musicians carry a dream. In the beginning of the new millennium internet
  had an intrinsic promise: to liberate the market from the middle-hands.
date: 2020-10-22 12:07:00
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## What happened to our dreams?

It's a fairly simple a common story. We thought our new tools would be a remedy to a social problem.

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We thought the music market didn't operate like other markets, that if an industry freshly grown global multi-billion industry could be on the brink of fall, it had to be bringing a new variable to the table. And it's almost true. Mostly true: the music market is a lot more shady then say; the market for salad. (Although i wouldn't be surprised if i am making a debatable claim here.) But it's not the shadyness of the music market that sets it appart from others. It's how it's value is being created. In that sense