The Music Industry Is Broken: Openwav's New App Aims to Change That

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OpenWav's new app aims to disrupt the music industry by offering services to artists, but commenters are skeptical about its potential to break the stranglehold of labels and Ticketmaster.

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MultifokalHirn

4 months ago

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when you are just another platform that offers services to artists like dropshipping merch and calling yourself "openwav" as if it were some open standard gives off really bad vibes...

evolve2k

4 months ago

Yeah the name gives me the ick. It smells scammy. I’d be changing it rather than risk ongoing negative brand affects.

bix6

4 months ago

AI merch and a 20% cut of ticket sales. I don’t see how this breaks the stranglehold that labels and Ticketmaster have?

iainctduncan

4 months ago

Every year another famous pop star teams up with some huckster startup to tell us the same story... and every year it doesn't pan out.

al_borland

4 months ago

This sounds like Patreon for music.