Re:How Spotify Works
by jiggy2011 on Friday November 25, 2011 @12:39PM
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Seems a minor point to me, the monthly fee is relatively small. For example I would happily pay the same fee if instead of them providing the application they just gave me the right to download anything from their catalog from bittorrent sites.
Your upload bandwidth is more limited than down though (although how much does the average user really use upstream anyway?).
It should be easy to use a firewall to throttle the outbound traffic on whatever port spotify uses.
Pherhaps you could just block it altogether , does the service still work even if you are not sharing?
I wonder what the legal implications of this are though, could the RIAA or similar at some point decide to start suing individual spotify users for sharing their music even though the record companies have some agreement with spotify in place?
Your upload bandwidth is more limited than down though (although how much does the average user really use upstream anyway?).
It should be easy to use a firewall to throttle the outbound traffic on whatever port spotify uses. Pherhaps you could just block it altogether , does the service still work even if you are not sharing?
I wonder what the legal implications of this are though, could the RIAA or similar at some point decide to start suing individual spotify users for sharing their music even though the record companies have some agreement with spotify in place?