If a Twitch streamer plays a copyrighted song on Twitch and it gets muted in the VOD, does it really directly benefit the label?
Content IDs feel like the prelude to do rent-extraction on users who will be made to pay a subscription for the right to stream such music. The industry is conglomerating around a few big companies and they could definitely do this to a point where there are no other alternatives besides not playing copyrighted music.
Copyright is very outdated, but also very useful to capitalists even paradoxically so.
Copyright is a double-edged sword. It only “works” for them if:
Everyone is relentlessly enforcing copyright without leaving any non-copyrighted alternatives
The streamer would buy the rights to stream the music if copyright was enforced on them
Most of them aren’t true and are very hard to prove.
If the dystopia you’re talking about does happen for whatever reason, a lot of streamers might switch to playing no music, rely on environmental sounds like bird songs, use non-copyrighted music, or generate their own music via AI.
The only real winners with the status quo are the law firms and lawyers imo.
I have no doubt that some companies benefit from the current system in some circumstances, but it’s a double-edged sword for sure.
Content IDs feel like the prelude to do rent-extraction on users who will be made to pay a subscription for the right to stream such music. The industry is conglomerating around a few big companies and they could definitely do this to a point where there are no other alternatives besides not playing copyrighted music.
Copyright is very outdated, but also very useful to capitalists even paradoxically so.
Copyright is a double-edged sword. It only “works” for them if:
Everyone is relentlessly enforcing copyright without leaving any non-copyrighted alternatives
The streamer would buy the rights to stream the music if copyright was enforced on them
Most of them aren’t true and are very hard to prove.
If the dystopia you’re talking about does happen for whatever reason, a lot of streamers might switch to playing no music, rely on environmental sounds like bird songs, use non-copyrighted music, or generate their own music via AI.
The only real winners with the status quo are the law firms and lawyers imo.
I have no doubt that some companies benefit from the current system in some circumstances, but it’s a double-edged sword for sure.