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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by swiley on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:10AM (#12135851)
Spotify actually does use peer to peer distribution although it's not open source.
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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by JelteF on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:45AM (#12135972)
They don't anymore [1]. CDNs simply got too cheap to have a warrant a more complicated setup, that did not work on all their clients.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-pe...

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by danr4 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:44AM (#12135966)
I believe they stopped p2p distribution [1]

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...

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