Originally Posted by nitrateaudio ➡️

I am more looking at the publishing estimates which is larger than the other two combined. And then I am looking at the prices may rise sections and wondering what they are thinking about. "Music exhibition" if you want to separate it from "music production" and "content creation" is pretty much "live music" and then streaming, which is an area tightly controlled by an oligopoly of tech corporations that have huge resources at their disposal. You can't just jump into that sector as an entrepreneur. What this tells me is, if all the players decide to raise prices in tandem, then there is nothing you as a consumer can do about it, as it's an oligopoly controlled by companies that are colluding together. So that $9.99 norm may well become $49.99 or even $99.99 norm one day with monies going back to the companies exhibiting the music to cover publishing costs. Not the creators.