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Re:Justice at Spotify by optimiz3 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:06PM (#26480554)
IMO spending $10 a month on CDs is a different market, since you own an asset in perpetuity. Spotify would have to guarantee a perpetual license that expands your library access the more you pay in. Instead, Spotify rents access to a single large library (which is good enough for most but very different).
Re:Justice at Spotify by FalconSensei on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:06PM (#26481378)
Exactly.

When I buy a CD, I have a physical good that is displayed on my shelf and it's going to stay with me for years, and which I can possibly re-sell.

$10 for Spotify gives me a month of listening to music. But after that is over, all I got is another $10 payment for the next month.