To: Tim Westergren, CEO
Pandora! Fair payouts for musicians now!
Payouts to content creators of FOURTEEN-HUNDREDTHS OF A CENT per stream are theft, plain and simple. No, Tim Westergren, these pitiful payouts for your ONE BILLION dollar revenue company are not fair to content creators.
Why is this important?
Spotify, Pandora's main competitor, pays out six times that amount - yet their payouts are also pitifully inadequate.
Music streaming services assume that the competition for online music is priced at “free,” and their value added is in curation.
No, the competition for streaming is “stolen” music. Streaming services are using stolen music as the comparative justification for pitiful compensation.
In this environment, artists are forced to crowd-fund their creative work, making friends and fans of the artist subsidize the creation of content from which these services profit.
It’s corrupt, unethical, exploitative, and unfair.
Music streaming services assume that the competition for online music is priced at “free,” and their value added is in curation.
No, the competition for streaming is “stolen” music. Streaming services are using stolen music as the comparative justification for pitiful compensation.
In this environment, artists are forced to crowd-fund their creative work, making friends and fans of the artist subsidize the creation of content from which these services profit.
It’s corrupt, unethical, exploitative, and unfair.