Ecosystem design
Chorus is, by design, just one piece of a larger puzzle of how the world of post-corporate music streaming can work. Here are a few high-level descriptions of how this can all fit together.
Payments
Payments are the most challenging part of the streaming ecosystem and the area most subject to abuse. Global money pools that are split up on a per-stream basis encourage bot listeners and ultra-short content, and pooling payments across listeners means that disproportionate numbers of listens from single users will give an outsized influence on the payments sent to the artists they listen to, at the expense of other artists.
While it’s out of scope to insist on a particular payment strategy (and payments are specifically not a part of the Chorus protocol), this document will explain a few ideas for how listeners can fairly compensate the artists that they listen to.