{"id":5373,"date":"2015-07-08T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/def-leppard-spotify-is-worse-than-napster\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:39:28","slug":"def-leppard-spotify-is-worse-than-napster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/def-leppard-spotify-is-worse-than-napster\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard: Spotify Is Worse Than Napster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9f\/Collen.JPG\/800px-Collen.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"252\" \/><br \/>From an interview with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen CTNow\u2026<br \/>CTNow: I\u2019ve noticed that much of the Def Leppard catalogue is not on Spotify or other streaming services. Can you comment on that?<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Phil Collen: I love what Taylor Swift has done. I have a friend who is a songwriter, and he had a song that got over a million plays on Spotify, and he received 12 pounds, about $18-$19. That really sums it up.<br \/>It\u2019s bad, if not worse, than the whole Napster thing and downloading when it started.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a CEO from [Spotify] would make an amazing profit, whereas the artist is taken advantage of.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a fan of that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where we stand in the future, but perhaps it would be good to do something else.\u00a0 When they show their true colors, you go, \u2018Well, it\u2019s the same old story again,\u2019 like some old blues guy getting $50 and actually owing his whole catalogue for life to someone who\u2019s ripped him off.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little like that.<\/p>\n<p>It happens all the time with artists, Michelangelo or whomever, back in the day.\u00a0 William Blake died penniless doing brass etchings, living on someone\u2019s floor.<br \/>A businessman will probably think an artist is just content with the art.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bummer getting ripped off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<br \/>Image credit: Creative Common<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen CTNow\u2026CTNow: I\u2019ve noticed that much of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}