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procaryoteyesterday at 7:59 PM1 replyview on HN

There would be no money floating around the music business, spare or otherwise, if no one paid for music

I guess you could fund it with taxes?


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hansvmyesterday at 10:21 PM

Sure, why not? Current US music revenue is $6/mo per US taxpayer. For less than half the cost of Spotify you could 5x the income going to musicians if you skipped the middleman and magically just paid them directly. That doesn't seem like a bad deal.