How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors

Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by BillMartin on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @07:52PM (#1836656)

Spotify's business model is based upon a collection of dubious contracts with record labels that have nothing to gain from spotify. That is amazing.

Is it me or does anyone realise that spotify is napster all over again? I mean come on even Sean Parker is on board. lol.

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by jacquesm on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @08:11PM (#1836706)

I must have missed something, I can't find any indication that the contracts mentioned are 'dubious', the only thing that seems to be the case is that they are so good that if they're not part of the deal Google does not think they can re-negotiate them on such favorable terms.

How does that make the contracts 'dubiuos'? To me that indicates they are of questionable legality, that does not seem to be the case here.

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by BillMartin on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:38PM (#1837143)

In terms of longevity.

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