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Re:Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by MikeKusold on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:30AM (#14308917)
> It's not at all surprising that their initial "success" is tied to torrenting as well.

Two founders of Spotify came from uTorrent after the sale.[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ek [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus

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Re:Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by bogomipz on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:54PM (#14312813)
[2] is not a co-founder, according to [1] the co founder is Martin Lorentzon.
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