What if someone started a real underground music label on the dark web. Bitcoin only, no banks, no streaming and no middlemen. Artists could drop music, earn for say 5 or 10 years, then the rights go to the public domain. No corporate ownership, no lifetime contracts.
Could a label like that actually work?
Streaming services make it to where you don’t own your music that you release onto the platform. Said streaming service does, and they’ll use it to make music using AI, which is why services like Spotify are doing just that, and the reason they DRM the music you want to listen to on the platform.
Wavlake is an example of what to do with a streaming service, given that they use RSS for their distribution, though it’s limited I think in some ways.