Some part of the discussion which highlights DRM and MQA has been moved to this new topic
I’m going to reference the one patent from MQA Ltd Versatile music distribution here again. This is only one. MQA Ltd got some more. You have to read also the others, fit them together, then you understand what’s happening.
It is not the artist which is the winner, it is the record company and the owners of MQA Ltd. They allow you to stream HighRes content, but the users can only listen to the music, if they got a licensed device. Without licensed device you get something less then CD. (44kHz,13bit)
Finally it is all about $$$$ and Neil Young is not part of this game.