The article describes a model where:

1. Music media is encrypted.
2. Each playback of the media requires payment.
3. Payment is handled via decentralized blockchains.

This scheme requires the music consumer to pay each time they listen to music. This is a non-starter for most consumers - they don't want their music encrypted.

And while the payment is decentralized, codec and associated infrastructure isn't. That means that whoever controls the codec is the distribution channel. They have the ability to control who gets paid, and how much they get paid. No chance of abuse there.

It's a bleak scenario no matter how I look at it.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?