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

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 covered 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

Episode links:

• Resonate Website
• Resonate Crowd-Owning Campaign
• Resonate - Stream-to-Own
• Resonate - Building a Blockchain Database
• Epicenter 126: Trent McConaghy on BigchainDB
• COALA IP

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/167