Spotify takes 30 %, too. The 'one third' in the headline is just rounding.
And the question should be if digital markets and platforms should take 30 % or not. Because every platform does so from Steam to Apple App Store to Spotify.
Besides that Spotify offers more than Steam imho. Playlist creation, discovery algorithms, individualized playlist generation, AI DJs and if you consider Steam to also be a social platform, Spotify is too.
With less than 1000 streams per year.
This is solely to kick out the AI generated music, which is already taking a significant share of the payout from the musicians.
This change is not against smaller artists, but for them.
Thats just post-war propaganda. I am german and while the Germans tried to bury their involvement post war, during the student protests of 1968 it became clear that the vast majority knew about concentration camps and was collaborating. Even my own great-grandma said that she had nothing to do with the Nazis and didn't know what happened. After her death I did some research into family history and saw that my great-grandfather was actually Gauleiter, so the highest ranked Nazi in a specific region and personally signed the deportation of the jews.
Because another disruption of global supply chains is exactly what we need...
Over 80 % of Russians support the war in Ukraine. This whole 'Putin isnt the Russian population' is just an excuse to not look like a country of fachists. Germany after WW2 did the same.
Thats a hindsight error. Before the invasion everyone argued that a full on war on Ukraine would be insanely stupid due to the economic implications of being a pariah state.
If its just about the technology, why are Nokia and Erricson not allowed to provide infrastructure for the Chinese net?
No country on its own is able to build high end chips. Currently you need at least Germany for technology, the Netherlands for the machines and Taiwan for manufacturing. In total over 300 companies just build parts for the machine.
No, China on its own won't be able to get close or even surpass.
Nevertheless, quite impressive that they went from being 10 years behind (18 nm) just two years ago to 3 years behind (5 nm). We have to wait and see if the claim of Huawei having 5 nm is actually true, but if so, they are closing the gap really fast – which of course makes everyone wonder how. And the track record of China and trade secrets makes it not a far stretch to at least consider theft. But of course it could also just mean that they are really good at reverse engineering.
I guess its time to stop differentiating between Hamas and Palestinians.
Where is the 2nd ammendment if you need it?
Thanks for the link! Really interesting that the vast majority is rwuandan descent, while the remaining 4 were Nazis or colloborateurs. Any idea why there are so many rwuandans?
Even the smallest artists are making more than 1000 streams yearly. The only ones they are hurting are AI generated songs.