It’s not necessary to do anything in life besides pay my taxes and die. Go fuck yourself with that ai trash.

I recognize that IP alone doesn’t make money, and that the vast majority of income for artists is via touring and merch sales. Controlling that IP, however, is what allows a band to protect its income streams- if I started selling merch with their brand on my website, none of that money would go to the band or pay their bills.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the copyright system we’ve come up with in the US is beyond fucked and generally favors large corporations over actual creators. However, as long as we continue to love in a world where basic necessities and dignity are not guaranteed, there needs to be something that allows those creators to protect their income from leaving, and publishing to the public domain does not accomplish this.

Sure, but how is your proposal any better than an artist just releasing their work on bandcamp or soundcloud? At least those platforms accept common payments. I really think that your insistence on crypto tanks the whole idea, as it significantly limits who would actually get the music in the first place.

Releasing music isn’t like software development, the audience doesn’t have the familiarity with or, for the most part, the facility to use crypto. As far as the average Joe knows, crypto is the domain of scammers and criminals, and it’s largely not useable as currency in day to day life.

Why would an artist sign with a label that has none of the marketing, distribution, or legal capabilities of a major label and serves an extremely limited/niche audience (bitcoin users)? Why would they give up their IP for free when it’s how they pay rent?

I think the system you’ve envisioned is unnecessarily limited and lacks the main reasons to sign with a label in the first place. I recognize labels are largely shitty and mistreat their artists, but they still serve a purpose.

I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same, but there is a similar tool under ‘viva insights’ in teams

Lock that fucker in the burnout oven and see how long they exist at 800°F (~426°C)

This is kind of niche, but my work/study playlist is mostly Mick Gordon (probably best known for his work on the Bethesda reboots of the Doom and Wolfenstein games). It’s hard to tie down to a specific genre, but could be described as somewhere between metal and electronica.

That’s fair, I really enjoy my rereads. While I do remember the main story beats and characters across the series, there’s just so much to remember! The depth of the world is easily on par with, if not surpassing, Tolkien’s work.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.