Adopting Nostr will destroy their current business model. So yup, very curious too.
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delivering content on demand from giant CDNs is still a service
also, copyright has nothing to do with censorship, it's about monopoly
Yup, they would have to become one of many #Blossom service providers.
- That would make Creators their main clients
- Bye bye subscription model, Enter pay per use
- #V4V for the consumer side
Another logical monetization angle for them would be selling the computation behind algo's, recommendations, matching creators with listeners, etc...
So yes, offering Hosting & Computation might be what they're doing (kinda) but right now it's not what they're selling.
sorry, i don't get your logic
tidal streams media to you:
- content delivery system requires authentication
- tidal auths you, then they auth the CDN to send to you
this has no impact on either payment model (pay per use vs time based subscriptions) nor on how you charge for it, it is just logistics
it is the same as paid relays or paid media hosting (eg nostr.build) - they will most likely stick to time based subscriptions and adjust them if they undershoot or demand is low and they are still in the black
it's easy to not make a loss on it too... just overestimate the delivery cost per customer and charge a good wide margin and then you don't have to nag the clients to increase their fees so often, also
If:
1. Any service can stream the media to you at whatever price
2. Anyone can pay for the media to be available to anyone
Why would I prefer a subscription as an uploading Creator? (some kind of insurance against popularity maybe? I could see that)
Why would I pay at all as a downloading Consumer?
Honestly asking.
why would you pay?
for premium features:
- on demand streaming
- high bandwidth encodings
- physical products and auxilliary materials (eg, associated art and files used to generate the output, like how Nine Inch Nails did with Ghosts)
this is all well established practices in the internet artistic content delivery business, there is nothing about nostr or blossom that changes that, unless you somehow can make it impossible for them to authenticate users and not be able to restrict delivery, then it is just a charity and you are not a business
i recommend you read Human Action by Ludwig von Mises (yes, you can download a good PDF of it and ebook for free from mises.org)
all marketable things are at base services
i can sell cars, or i can rent cars, but what the customer is paying for is transport, and thus public buses, and air transport are also delivering the same basic service
people like prestige items because they want to look like they are prestige, thus the plethora of stupid products with blings and prominent elite brand names that have turned into broad market items with low actual prices and declining prestige
you don't buy a house to own the house, you buy it to keep the rain and cold out, to stop people stealing your stuff, to store your food, to house your bed, which provides you a comfortable place to sleep
Tao Te Ching chapter 11:
11
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
It won't. They have an ability to create a sister social network which uses Tidal brand and seamessly integrates in Tidal UX aimed at artists based on Nostr which will heavily use kind0s. They've recently launched Tidal Circles closed beta which is a Twitter-like experience for artists. It doesn't make any sense unless it uses Nostr under the hood. As it allows anonymous posting I suspect it is in fact a Nostr client.
It seems like that's what they're doing indeed. And it's very exciting;
But, it implies a switch to Value for Value, offering hosting as a service, offering algo's as a service, freely remixing Beyoncé, inability to offer copyright protection to artists, ...
Right now it's just default kind-0 client experience, no audio. It's not a Soundcloud ripoff yet.