http://jingdaily.com/chinas-online-music-market-is-movingsay-it-loud/
The chinese music industry is introducing free streaming with paid downloading. "Several major music websites like QQ Music (owned by Tencent), Baidu Music (Baidu), and Xiami (Alibaba) will start to charge for music." They feel that music streaming should be free along with advertisements but that consumers need to pay to download the somgs, of course. "The price range for these services will probably range from 1 yuan ($0.16) for one song to 15-20 yuan ($2.39-3.20) per month for unlimited downloads." The artists need to be paid, the prices for the somgs are reasonable, adding unlimited downloading for that price will also persuade people to take the deal so they can download all the music they desire.
I think that is important to pay for the media one consumes. The producers of music, film, etc. need to be paid in order to continue to produce the media. Streaming however, has become less and less accessible for the consumer, even if it is free. Apps like Spotify and Pandora limits the consume to songs previously picked and marketed by the company as opposed to being chosen by the consumer. And furthermore, the listener is limited to a certain number of skips in a certain time frame. The music industry successfully upsets consumers on all fronts. Why should we have to pay to choose but then be limited within our free music, artists deserve money but not slaves.
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