In what way do you think paywalled music is working?
Artists are getting screwed, while a few middlemen and labels are still making decent money. The whole payment model, forced by the major labels, absolutely fucks smaller artists over - meaning that they get only a tiny fraction of the subscription fees, even those from users who only listen to their content.
It does not work.
Pay walled news sites are always going to lose out compared to more open ones, as it's useless to link to them on twitter etc.
One very popular paywalled news site I use allows you to freely share links to individual pages. For now, that seems to work for them.
As for paywalled music: artists were getting screwed before. Maybe more so, maybe less so, but many were getting screwed. Either way, maintaining the status quo doesn't seem like a good solution, so why try and maintain that. I'd rather see the whole deal collapse so that new things can be tried.
Artists are getting screwed, while a few middlemen and labels are still making decent money. The whole payment model, forced by the major labels, absolutely fucks smaller artists over - meaning that they get only a tiny fraction of the subscription fees, even those from users who only listen to their content.
It does not work.
Pay walled news sites are always going to lose out compared to more open ones, as it's useless to link to them on twitter etc.