Recently I purchased a music collection again and host it on my nextcloud so I can stream my copies of my music to myself.
Streaming is a good way to make money for companies, but it also means that they don't bother investing in risky but potentially lucrative new acts because there's no marginal benefit to finding a new act.
Besides that, the amount of power it gives is dangerous. Certain songs already have been taken off the radio because they were offensive. Eventually cancel culture will come for music, and when it happens that offensive but important cultural history will be erased, and if nobody has their own copy of that history then it'll fade from the collective consciousness, to be thrown in a vault never to be released.
Streaming is a good way to make money for companies, but it also means that they don't bother investing in risky but potentially lucrative new acts because there's no marginal benefit to finding a new act.
Besides that, the amount of power it gives is dangerous. Certain songs already have been taken off the radio because they were offensive. Eventually cancel culture will come for music, and when it happens that offensive but important cultural history will be erased, and if nobody has their own copy of that history then it'll fade from the collective consciousness, to be thrown in a vault never to be released.
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