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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by beeboobaa on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:30AM (#38392522)
Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month, more than I have ever bought in my life. And they don't even have to spend any money to burn and distribute them. So they're already making more money than they would otherwise. The only issue is that the money isn't going to those who actually deserve it. Don't encourage these greedy jackals to charge even more.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by ghaff on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:50AM (#38392722)
Younger people buying one or two albums per month used to be extremely common. And distribution of media generally (also in the case of books) is a much smaller percentage of the costs than most people assume.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by sokoloff on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:35AM (#38392566)
It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists. Artists rarely got more than 10%.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by troupo on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:56PM (#38397437)
> It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists

What "different jackals". It's the same jackals who are getting the lion's share: the labels.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by robert_dipaolo on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:33AM (#38392551)
They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free.

However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by beeboobaa on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:39AM (#38392607)
They're not free, but they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the cost to distribute tons of CDs all over the world taking up loads of shelf space world-wide.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by klelatti on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:34AM (#38392558)
And the value being delivered to you is a huge amount more than you got with 1-2 CDs a month.

But you’re not prepared to pay more for that value?

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by beeboobaa on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:38AM (#38392602)
Nope. My value to my employer has also gone up tremendously thanks to technology but I'm not seeing an exponentially increased paycheck, nor are most people. Technology exists to make everyone's life's better, not to make you richer.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by paulcole on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:24AM (#38393064)
> Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month

How is that possible?

A new CD is around $14 and Spotify is like $12.

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