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Streaming services can be a win-win for artists and fans...

Music, TV series, and movies creator have had a thorny with the Internet. Its seen mostly as a enemy rather than an ally, since its easy for people to share media among themselves without the creators getting anything from their hard work. The real question here isn't how to prevent people from sharing, but how to enable them to do so in a way that its easy and that benefits the creators as well. Streaming services like Spotify , which I use and personally love, has make it a lot easier to listen to artist I already enjoy listening to and to discover new music. For me it has given me a practical way to enjoy music in a way that the artist can benefit as well, which is the ideal situation. While I've issues with Spotify being proprietary , and that it uses digital rights management( DRM ), I do believe its a step in a good direction to enable artists to receive the income they deserve. I'd love to see Spotify becoming free and open source software , and ditch DR...