Tom Dunne: Changes to payments from streaming services are very welcome

As the big labels flex their muscle and take on the huge problem of false streams, hopefully it'll mean more money trickling down to artists 

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For those who hate the main streaming services – and artists driving the byroads of Ireland with a car boot full of your own CDS to sell at gigs, I am looking at you – there is hope dawning. A chink of light has appeared in the sky. Things might, at last, be getting better.

I still remember the moment when, knee-deep in CDs that had been sent in by aspiring artists, I started to get an inkling of the kind of post-CD world we might be moving into. It was 2001 and I’d been asked to write a few words on Napster and Metallica’s threats to sue it.