Friday Nite Videos | December 2, 2022
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Ticketmaster is destroying live music. Fees as much as 78% of a ticket. Controlling events, venues, even artists. There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to take on their monopoly. Cory Doctorow breaks it down.
Since the year 2000, Chris Molanphy reminds us in his review of this history of digital music by Stephen Witt, "the recording industry’s revenue has more than halved and music consumption has undergone a definitive realignment." How did this happen? At least part of the story has to do with the story Witt tells. It's a story of how music traders, engineers, rogue industry executives, and music hobbyists all came together to create massive disruption.
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