Thing is, I’m so old it’s something I experienced, not something I read about. This was back in the early aughts, you had people livestreaming sets. Very organic, tapped into the amateur/pirate radio movement. This was before the really big VC money got into everything, so these were small operations. Well the labels didn’t like it, so they lobbied to get a monetization scheme implemented that made it a per-listen cost to the internet radio “stations.” So they got punished for growth, which killed Internet radio for anyone except the traditional radio stations. Until Spotify came along and blitz scaled their way into bed with the labels.