167 – Peter Harris: Democratizing the Music Industry with the Streaming Music Cooperative Resonate

Summary: Support the show, consider donating: 1EkFpCoWBXi5HHTMW2e6eJp5t7odhbm4cX (http://bit.ly/2iZXeNB) After the successful Ethereum crowdfunding campaign, musician and web developer Peter Harris saw a path to creating a fair, decentralized music streaming platform. Out of that Resonate was born. Peter joined us to discuss why the dysfunctional structure of the music industry results in a bad deal for musicians and why a decentralized platform supported by blockchain technology and run as a cooperative represents a better way forward. Topics discussed in this episode: - How technology changed the ability of musician's to make money - Why streaming platforms don't compensate musicians fairly - The story of how Peter came to found resonate - Why Stream-to-Own is a better way to compensate artists - Why Resonate chose to build on BigchainDB - The benefits of the cooperative structure for decentralized platforms - The Resonate crowd-owning campaign Links mentioned in this episode: - Resonate Website: https://resonate.is/ - Resonate Crowd-Owning Campaign: https://seedbloom.it/projects/resonate - Resonate - Stream-to-Own: https://resonate.is/stream-to-own/ - Resonate - Building a Blockchain Database: https://resonate.is/building-a-blockchain-database/ - Epicenter 126: Trent McConaghy on BigchainDB: https://epicenter.tv/episode/126/ - COALA IP: https://www.coalaip.org/ Sponsors: - Jaxx: Wallets that Unify the Blockchain Experience Across Devices - http://jaxx.io This episode is also available on : - Epicenter.tv: https://epicenter.tv/167 - YouTube: http://youtu.be/kXC0KFrTxpg - Souncloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-167 Watch or listen, Epicenter is available wherever you get your podcasts. Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sébastien Couture & Meher Roy.