The controversy over COVID skeptic Joe Rogan’s $100 million deal with Spotify has led to widespread criticism and major artists such as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young pulling their catalogs from the platform. But Spotify's issues in the music industry go much further than this scandal. The streaming model when it was first unveiled was hailed as a silver bullet to the failing recording industry, which was on the back foot in its fight against piracy. This simple solution was el