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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
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That's some bullshit right there. Every day should be Bandcamp Friday. I understand charging a small 1-3% fee to cover server costs, but nothing more. Otherwise Apple is just another evil record label profiting off of peoples' talent.
Because I guess nothing is ever good enough.
Server costs? I mean for a media serving website at this scale you need the servers, storage, people to run the servers, people to development the website, fix bugs, keep on top of security. If you had a very talented team that was very lean, and each member of which can wear multiple hats to reduce headcount, you’re talking $400-$600,000 a year just in salaries. Thats before you consider taxes, benefits, etc.
Do you think bandcamp is run by like one guy renting bargain bin shared cpu servers from AWS?
The most entitled people are CEOs and right after them it’s people who think everything on the internet should be free and without ads.
From what I can find, BC takes 15% for most sales, 10% for high-sellers. Dunno if that's good or bad, but it seems low to me.
id say it's quite good, storage and distribution can get expensive
It's certainly lower than the 20-30% game distribution platforms take.
I can pretty much guarantee the server & staff costs are more than 1% of sticker price, especially since BC includes streaming services.