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Music-video YouTube case-study Foxes and Fossils

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== Problem ==
The music industry in flux again, there appears to be a mounting effort to eliminate downloads in favor of streaming by the major services.
# CD-Baby does not sell CDs anymore, they are honoring downloads purchased earlier, but going forward, they are distributing exclusively to streaming services.
This development can have harsh consequences to independent musicians, instead of receiving seventy cents on the dollar for a download, the artist share is reduced to hundredths of a penny per spin on a streaming service and hope that fans will spin the stream repeatedly.
 
== Tradition (indie) path ==
The "traditional" path for independent artists has been to create quality content for YouTube and simply provide a link to iTunes for monetization, many artists did not monetize their content