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Re:How Spotify Works by jakubw on Friday November 25, 2011 @07:51AM (#3276959)
Because streaming services wouldn't own rights to artists' work and they wouldn't be tying them down with multirecord deals. With these constraints lifted, there'd only be free market mechanisms left, which would force the services to be nice both to artists and users.
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Re:How Spotify Works by danieldk on Friday November 25, 2011 @10:01AM (#3277180)
Or spread artists amongst competitive services, forcing us users to subscribe to multiple services.

I'd rather take a copy of the music, and own the copy the rest of my life, thank you.

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