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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by brigandish on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:03AM (#38393463)
It may be that they're looking to create a monopoly and price competitors out of the market, and will raise prices (but probably not payments) when/if they succeed. Or perhaps they have already? I don't know of a real competitor to Spotify.

Edit: by real competitor, I mean one that most people will know and hence, can compete. Even monopolies like Google and Facebook have competitors that some random person I ask is likely to know about. Not sure I could say that of Tidal et al.

Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by scarface_74 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:56AM (#38394128)
Like they are going to actually going to survive a price war with trillion dollar market cap companies like Apple, Amazon and Google.