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Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by Mindwipe on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:47AM (#17885521)
> Imagine the innovation at Spotify if there were no copyright!

None, because Spotify would go out of business overnight as people stole their source code.

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Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by mcny on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:41PM (#17886972)
The value of Spotify isn't in the source code just like the value of Google cloud or AWS isn't. Someone still needs to offer it as a service.
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Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by JetSpiegel on Saturday September 01, 2018 @04:05AM (#17890836)
Why? Icecast is open source and it does the same thing.

Spotify's value is not running many Icecast servers.

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