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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by jakelazaroff on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:51AM (#20343846)
Does this pay artists? I can't find any mention of it on their website.
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Re:Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent... by sethhochberg on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:57AM (#20344290)
They claim to specialize in copyleft content, so almost certainly not. The cynic in me thinks that in practice it'll be a fancy frontend for everybody's BitTorrent downloads folder... with an archive.org downloader script for some plausible deniability.
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