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The entire traditional music licensing world is based on scaling up pennies and it has provided real income for many for a long time.


Pennies from radio play is different from pennies from an mp3 sale.

I don't know any start-up making significant $ from mp3 referral sales. Tops they may make couple grand but that is not much when you are getting 5m uniques(won't even pay for the streaming; and making 2k from mp3 affiliate sales is tough even with 5M uniques.)




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