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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

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It would thus be insanely naive to imagine that capitalist structures like labels and streaming companies (especially public ones), which hoard power by their inherent nature, will automatically align with the collective human interest in the future of music by pursuing their individual commercial interests. That has generally not worked for anything. But self-interest can be marshaled into collective interest through laws. The music business probably needs more laws. And as a global structure, the music business probably needs world laws, and thus governments who are good at laws have an opportunity to lead by example. Laws operate by offering us excuses to act morally, in spirit as much as obedience, and thus we also need mores.

— Glenn McDonald

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