Music streaming industry today: - Largely controlled by incumbents - Marge publishing/record label companies license their music to various parties, including consumers via... - Streaming company provide recurring revenue to the above in the form of licensing fees and revenue sharing - Individual artists have 2 options, make pennies from [[Spotify]] and other streaming platforms based on plays or sell on sites like [[Bandcamp]] where consumers more directly pay for DRM-free permanent access to the media [[Bandcamp]] likely has ongoing CDN costs associated with streaming and general bandwidth. I'm unsure if the storage costs are comparable to bandwidth costs, but music is mostly a distribution problem, not write-heavy. A good portion of [[Bandcamp]] users prefer to support their favorite artists as directly as possible but also recognize the value the platform provides. IMO the model for Bandcamp is lacking, that is they try to appeal to 2 drastically different types of users: streamers, and non-streamers. Their streaming support is ok, with the basic features I would expect from an app, but they fail to capture revenue from the recurring cost of delivering content in this manner. It costs money to store and deliver data.