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Could a music streaming service work on #atproto? The music, number of plays, subscribers, all on each artist's repo. User subscription fees fairly distributed based on user plays. How is the content restricted for non paying users? How are artists paid by the app while also having portability?

Perhaps the official play counts live on a separate repo, owned by whoever is managing payments and streaming. If an artist decides to go with a different provider, they keep their profile, subscribers and content. Artists could even offer their own direct payment plans under the same system.

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it gets tricky if you're e.g. paying out artists based on their play counts...what stops someone from creating a bunch of listens on their own PDS to get money? thankfully, tracklist:// won't launch with licensing, artists get all the $ from ad sales/subs, so we haven't had to solve this yet. 1/2