This is why subscription models don't work when you're subscribing to the middleman. If a label suddenly wants to yank their music, they can.
Without a middleman, it's going to be a pain to subscribe to multiple labels. It would require vast improvements in protocols/infrastructure in an industry that's extremely slow moving.
Billing would probably the hardest part - customers won't want to pay different values each month depending on the labels the music they listened to happened to belong, in my opinion. They (We) want flat, predicable bills, and that involves having a middleman acting as a "financial buffer", which charges the same to every client but pays different values to each label.
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This is why subscription models don't work when you're subscribing to the middleman. If a label suddenly wants to yank their music, they can.
Without a middleman, it's going to be a pain to subscribe to multiple labels. It would require vast improvements in protocols/infrastructure in an industry that's extremely slow moving.
Billing would probably the hardest part - customers won't want to pay different values each month depending on the labels the music they listened to happened to belong, in my opinion. They (We) want flat, predicable bills, and that involves having a middleman acting as a "financial buffer", which charges the same to every client but pays different values to each label.