This site is "optimized" for users within the USA

That's what they call it these days...

Because clearly no European user would be interested in any American music. And obviously we wouldn't want to promote that music to fans around the world anyway. They could end up buying a CD or some merchandise, or even - God forbid - go see an artist in concert.

The entertainment mafia just never ceases to amaze me.

Give me a "Kravmärkt" Spotify, please.

Svd.se has an article today on how Spotify makes money and how this money is distributed (or should I say heavily filtered?) to the artists. And we all know how the artist's cut looks these days.

My proposal is a "Kravmärkt" version of Spotify. An ethical, ecological if you will, version that distributes the money directly to the artists without any costly and highly unethical intermediaries. Not only would I not hesitate to use such a service (as opposed to my reluctance to use Spotify today), but I would gladly pay 99 SEK per month for the premium version knowing that my money went to the artists I'm listening to. Something like this:

How the music industry makes its money

We've already seen how the movie industry makes its money by ripping off the writers and actors through "Hollywood accounting".

How about the music industry? Much the same, really, ripping off the songwriters and artists. While they're not busy suing their customers, that is.

There truly is no business like showbusiness, perhaps with the exeption of organized crime.