Every business built on gatekeepers eventually fails. At some point some technology comes around, making the entire old school industry obsolete.It’s a shortsighted model based on greed, ego and false perception of invulnerability.
Take the old school music industry: it was a ticking time bomb of self-destruction waiting to go off. It began with the birth of recorded music. The “artist gatekeepers” with the infrastructure and access to place music on retail shelves decided they would not just charge a fee for the service, but would also require a transference of copyright from the creator to the gatekeeper.
For the “consumer gatekeepers,” they could have chosen to allow more music to be exposed, but they went down the same path as the artist gatekeepers...CONTINUE
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