I have a big enough music library to recognize some dimensions of the market. The recent change in policy by Amazon Music has killed off some of my more interesting selections. I was warned.
My reaction is to spend a bit more money and time on vinyl, and to never again sell a CD. It's tricky to maintain several terabytes of digital music, but the convenience of streaming music is seductive and risky.
For example. I once had but no longer have an album of the Dave Rose Orchestra. This guy recorded 'The Stripper', a classic. You may immediately recognize the music, although not the girl, from this video.
I would be provocative to suggest some censorship is going on. I wouldn't doubt it but I cannot prove it. It makes little difference in a renter's market whose tastes are crowded out. But I suspect that the renter's market is only marginally larger than the buyer's market when it comes to digital goods online, and what's going on is the shrinkage of the renter's market to the minimum. Some understanding of the economics of 'ultimates' and 'superdistribution' is in order here.
The bottom line is that the major cloud providers are out of ideas and can no longer provide cheap or free storage for the long tail of digital goods and streaming services. The internet is no longer and infinite library.
I'm looking forward to TBL's SOLID, and forming some online collectives. Books, movies, and music are disappearing.
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