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Re:Justice at Spotify by kjakm on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:21AM (#26477005)
It's also still remarkably cheap for unlimited access to all the music ever recorded.
Re:Justice at Spotify by Macha on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:24AM (#26477052)
That ship sailed in the 90s with widespread music piracy. The market simply doesn't value digital copies of recorded music that much anymore.

Spotify was an increase in artist revenues as prior to that most people were paying nothing for their music, be it bittorrent in the 00s, cd copying in the 90s, or recording radio to tape in the 80s.

Re:Justice at Spotify by falcolas on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:23AM (#26477033)
Nit: It's nowhere close to all the music ever recorded. It's barely most of the mainstream artists.
Re:Justice at Spotify by Hamuko on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:33AM (#26477187)
The problem is that people don't care about "all the music ever recorded". They mostly care about a very limited selection of music. And if Spotify starts costing like $45 a month, how many people still think it's worth it? You can buy like four albums off of iTunes for that and then listen to them as much as you want.
Re:Justice at Spotify by iterati on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:24AM (#26477056)
I'd just go back to torrenting at that price.
Re:Justice at Spotify by 3saryHg6LP2e on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:23AM (#26477044)
Will consumers pay that price is the question?
Re:Justice at Spotify by mschuetz on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:49PM (#26479338)
For all music ever recorded, maybe. But Spotify doesn't even have half of what I'm regularly listening to - a regular annoyance - let alone half of all music ever recorded.