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It doesn’t though. There is no transaction between you and Taylor Swift.

If you listened to less music than the average person then some of your fee went to the people who listened to more music, and the other way round if you listened to more music. Which is going to average out in the end anyway, while massively simplifying the accounting. Spotify can also tell artists exactly how much they are getting paid rather than having to wait for the end of the billing period to work it out. Only to come to roughly the same amount anyway.

There is no tracing routes with a pooled fund. Only inputs and outputs. And the outputs would seem to be pretty much identical in the pooled system vs individual pools per user.



Ok so still yes taylor swift is indirectly or whatever getting some of your money


In the same way that your small time artist is getting some of Taylor swift fans money. In the end the artists still get paid the same under either system.


But they do not get payed the same. Let's say Spotify has two users that total 100 listens, 99 Taylor listens and one listen for the obscur artist.

If payed by total listens Taylor gets 99%.

Now if those 99 listens are from the one user and the other from the other user. Paying by listens ratio per user, Taylor will get 50%.


That only matters if as a whole Taylor swift listeners listen to Spotify for longer than obscure artist listeners. Which hasn’t been shown.

Over the entire population of Spotify listeners you are going to have high and low listen count users that average out.


No, it was shown this doesn't average out, there is a study linked upthread.


The obtuseness of your responses is incredible. Can you not even concede anything?




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