I have actually received a copyright infringement notice for posting a video I made for my own music, so this is actually possible. Not likely, but possible.
Your math assumes those people only have one track on Spotify. I currently have 25 tracks on Spotify. Without advertising or promotion of any kind, I earned about $12 this year. The big problems are:
New rules apply per song, so if ALL my songs got 999 streams, that would be $75 they wouldn’t pay me–if ONE song hit the magic 1000 streams they would pay me $3 and I still wouldn’t get the other $72
They are still making money off my streams, they are just coming up with ways not to pay me for it while still claiming to be "artist focused"
They claim the “small payments” usually don’t get claimed anyway so they don’t see the need to make them–this is ideologically "paying with exposure"
By your logic, since $33,975 annual income is the federal poverty level, anyone making less than that should not complain about not getting paid at all–you can obviously insert any arbitrary amount here to support the “logic” of “that’s not much so nothing at all is just as good”
I have no delusions about ever making a living off Spotify (or my extremely niche music in general), but the idea that a corporation should be able to monetize my work and not have to pay me anything for it is sort of distasteful
I am running Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials and uBlock Origin on Firefox. I don’t get ads or the message on any device (2 windows laptops, a Linux laptop, windows NUC) and I am logged in to youtube/google accounts on all of them. Don’t know if I’ve found some magic formula or have just been lucky, but I keep forgetting google’s trying to pull this shit until I run across posts like this talking about it…
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Biden Is Putting Arab Americans in an Impossible Position (time.com)
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Revisiting YouTube's Anti-Ad blocker Message
The original post I made about this is here....
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”