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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Megaupload had plans to pay creators for each download of their creation, they announced it a few weeks before they were closed down. Spottify would be another example.
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Spotify is not a pirate site. Its a legit company with an untried business model that it is currently executing.
Even so, Spotify isn't a money maker for artists.
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The average payout so far has been a sliver over 0.1 cents. Thus the minimum wage benchmark we assumed in Paradise ($1,160/month for a solo artist) is met when we get 1,077,216 plays a month. It actually looks better than Last.fm did, before they discontinued the service, but it’s still the kind of numbers only superstars can hope to achieve.
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Megaupload didn't pay any artist a dime, and I doubt they ever would have paid a dime.