Which is what Apple charges (and Spotify complain), and what Steam charges, and what GoG charges, and what Epic charges, and what Google Play charge, and what the company I work for charges
For a digital media marketplace, 30% has been settled on for the industry standard whether it's reasonable or not.
It's record labels that are scamming small artists, and frankly spotify offer a better chance for them to go independent than having to rely on connections to get radio play so someone will buy their music
To me this reads as classism rather than racism but they don't want to open up that can of worms
Any 1st/2nd generation immigrants are likely to be worse off, so show me Black, Romanian, Italian, Australian, Chinese data and I bet they're all similar figures (similar to working class British people as things like incomplete credit history etc. will balance out removing upper classes from the data)
It's just an effort to turn people against each other based on skin colour so the people doing the discriminating can claim they're good as they're not racist, and everyone is too distracted to notice
Which you have to carry around separately, which comes at a convenience cost and so you're more likely to just go for wireless ones (I know I have after the headphone jack wore out in my phone)
And also not charge at the same time unless you get a well shielded dac dongle with a usb female which also allows charging and supports thunderbolt, which is another piece of future e-waste that you'll have to carry around in addition to your phone and 3.5mm only dongle, as the unconnected wire will get caught on your hand if you try to use your phone
Your idea of a fix makes as much sense as apple calling selling you 90% of a new device fixing your device - let's not allow degenerate business practices just because a brand like to think of themselves as green and ethical, it's anti-consumer and anti-environment, no ifs, no buts.
"we want to reduce e-waste by forcing everyone to throw out their wired headphones and buy a new set of wireless ones every couple of years when the battery goes dead"
Is it Spotify that arrange the cut for artists or the label though?
I don't know but I'd think it's the labels as it's too much for Spotify to negotiate per-artist?
When food companies use slave labour or cut down old growth forest for intensive farms do we get mad at Walmart/Tesco/Carrefour for having a normal margin on what they buy from the food companies (which may or may not leave enough for the products to be sourced sustainably, but that's a separate argument as the food companies would likely take a higher margin over keeping the same one and making their food more sustainable if paid more) or do we blame the food companies/their suppliers?
It'd be good to add an "official warning" (which potentially expires) to Lemmy so that people know what they did was against the rules, but forgivable, and if they do it again they're banned
Of course some things warrant a ban straight up but equating them with a heated but essentially harmless debate is harsh
Frankly at that pay grade in that industry you're either going to work for a company that makes money selling ads/data, in high frequency trading or a hedge fund, and the latter two are objectively more parasitical - at least content creators and media publishers get a cut from ads, rather than all the money either staying in the company or going to their competitors, with the only instance of their business affecting normal people being when they crash the economy
Selling more ads can actually be engaging to work on even if it's not world changing, if you're given things you actually need to think through
Unfortunately I can't really see Google being the type of place that lets people think for themselves, they're far too busy trying to please the shareholders for that
I read (this morning) that there's a theory that hiccups are a reflex to pump air across one's gills, and are more common in foetuses & premature babies as their lungs aren't fully developed...
So I guess if that is the case (as it's a theory) then yes, just not in humans - they're remnants of over 300 million years ago
Should be from workers' perspective, but 3-1-4-2 is still a win for pretty much everyone as it would most likely improve productivity potentially more than 4-3 while also giving "more" (marginally, but still about 4 days per year) time off than 5-2
We (in much of Europe at least) rely on train lines and sewers laid out over 100 years ago and we refer to plans made then, so I think there's a high chance there's software around in 100 years which still works so never gets replaced (or gets upgraded but is the same at the core, I bet windows still has task manager barely modified)
Ok but a branching story is far from the same as a tv show
If you prefer point-and-click shooters or FIFA or whatever that's fine, but it's not like good RPGs are any closer to cinematic games/walking simulators than them - RPGs & walking simulators share a story, whereas point-and-click shooters & walking simulators share repetitiveness and little to no replay value
For the latter there is an argument that they're more of a sport than a media form, but why not just go to the gym or join a sports team? It follows the same logic as why not watch a movie instead of playing a game with a story
There's been loads of cases of stock photo companies selling on work they've never had any rights to, they just exist to get the buck passed to if someone gets sued for copyright infringement, it doesn't matter if it's in the public domain as that is still useful in case you would've otherwise accidentally used someone's 2014 recreation of the painting or something
https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per-stream/
They charge 30%
Which is what Apple charges (and Spotify complain), and what Steam charges, and what GoG charges, and what Epic charges, and what Google Play charge, and what the company I work for charges
For a digital media marketplace, 30% has been settled on for the industry standard whether it's reasonable or not.