Napster Is Doing AI Music Now — And Still Taking Shots at the Major Labels

“ We don’t think that the future of music involves the labels anymore,” Napster CEO John Acunto tells Rolling Stone. Do you have plans to compensate the major labels for the streaming royalties you owe them? We at some point look to repair the relationships with major labels. But I think major labels have been a suppressant and a problem in people owning their content, owning their data, and I think they’re continuing to be a suppressant. You’ve now allowed the major labels to figure out how they’re going to own the data, own these things.