From d8ad73ee1fc5d53663061cb8f9481cc6259f0e46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Set Hallstrom Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:12:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated '_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md' via CloudCannon --- _posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md b/_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md index 4b31c73..4678a05 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md +++ b/_posts/2020-10-22-streaming-to-the-masses.md @@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ The music market is shady. But it's not the shadiness of the music market that s And the shadiness remained, worse it got amplified on the Internet. Now music isn't only a mean of motivating workers to produce, it also became a tool of surveillance. The industry abandoned sales and opted for [rentification](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giovanni_Dosi){: target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. Why sell an album for 9$ when you can rent it out for 9$ per month? Centralizing like this comes with added benefits: there is no need to risk capital in printing a bunch of packages that might end-up in a pile collecting dust. And the nature of the central source of the music being a database, it also enables for exact monitoring of what plays, when, by whom\! Better yet\! If we correlate that with social media profiles, we also know what age, gender and religion responds better to what. -![](/images/posts/deathofadream.jpg){: width="1024" height="678"} - -Photo: ["August View"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/99804259@N00/20809008233){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} by [Rantz](https://www.flickr.com/photos/99804259@N00){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} +![](/images/posts/deathofadream.jpg){: width="1024" height="678"}Photo: ["August View"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/99804259@N00/20809008233){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} by [Rantz](https://www.flickr.com/photos/99804259@N00){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich){: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} ## But did the dream really die though? \ No newline at end of file