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Re:Open-Source Spotify App by dannyw on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:55PM (#21869715)
"Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify."

- Daniel Ek (Spotify co-founder)

Re:Open-Source Spotify App by csunbird on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @04:29AM (#21870897)
I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by sweeneyrod on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @07:13AM (#21871481)
They can't, because they have a different business model. For TV content producers, consumers paying for content (with either dollars or eyeballs) is their main source of income. But for musicians, most of their money comes from playing live shows. So Spotify can be much more relaxed about revenue than HBO.
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by glitcher on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:03AM (#21872461)
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by pixelrevision on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:51AM (#21872030)
It also costs a good deal less for a band to put out an album than it does to make a season of game of thrones.
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by selectodude on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:12AM (#21872946)
And an album provides far more recurring revenue than a movie does. I’ve listened to my favorite albums hundreds of times. I’ve watched my favorite television shows twice, three times at most.
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by hombre_fatal on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:31AM (#21873088)
What's the "way of Spotify" in your post? One single company toll-gating all content? That doesn't sound like the ideal to me.
Re:Open-Source Spotify App by dannyw on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:45PM (#21876412)
Multiple companies having libraries of essentially all content. I can choose between Spotify, Apple Music, whatever Google rebrands their product to every month, etc.