So if my granddaughter pays £10 a month and listens to Ariana Grande four hours a day while I pay the same and listen to Kathryn Tickell two hours a week, then rather than giving them £10 each (less Apple’s 30% commission), Ariana will get fourteen times what Kathryn gets [1553]. …
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… This means that most of your subscription – or at least of the money the tech firms don’t take one way or another – goes to the megastars like Ariana, and Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga (Ross Anderson, "#SecurityEngineering — Third Edition", PDF-Preview 2020-05-16)
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