Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring Fair Pay for Artists

Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by PodgieTar on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:36AM (#38392584)

I'll add to this as well, since it's a comment I see a lot.

I'm not convinced that people would be willing to go back to Piracy. I think the convenience of being able to listen to any song at any time immediately without having to connect your iPhone to your PC, drag the file over, get them recognised, maybe add some metadata. (I know there'll be more modern approaches to this. I don't think they'll be quite as easy as Spotify)

That's not even mentioning music discovery. Most of my music is now from Discover Weekly.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by ghaff on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:42AM (#38392636)

The power of convenience is definitely more a thing than I really appreciated in the Napster era. But I also don’t think people would generally subscribe to $50 per month streaming music.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by morsch on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:43AM (#38392643)

Why wouldn't a modern Napster replacement a) run on your phone and b) have music discovery? Doing both P2P is only a legal challenge (as in, it is illegal), not a technical one.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by jl6 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:47AM (#38392693)

Illegal things are harder to do on phones because the app stores act as enforcers in a way that desktop OS vendors don’t. Most people don’t sideload or jailbreak.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by PodgieTar on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:47AM (#38392687)

In what world would Apple allow a piracy app on their AppStore? This may change with the EU demanding other AppStores - but as of right now it would be unworkable.

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