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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Mindwipe on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:40AM (#39260119)
Spotify loses money (which is why they keep trying to do things that are not music to keep the company afloat), and while Apple doesn't split out Music it's fairly unlikely that is a profitable business either.

Music is literally a textbook example of why it doesn't work.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Aeolun on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:48AM (#39260184)
Spotify can just raise prices by 50% and make money? If they tell me the choice is between Spotify disappearing and me paying more, the choice is extremely easy.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Mindwipe on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:37AM (#39274031)
If Spotify raises prices they have to pay the vast majority of that out to labels still, it's all percentage models.

And they likely lose subscribers to they literally get poorer.

Spotify knows it's only way out is exclusive content, hence the Rogan deal et al.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by int_19h on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:57AM (#39393690)
Image we actually had a law like that.

Then Spotify would have to charge whatever they need to charge to remain profitable without exclusive content. And the labels would have to charge Spotify whatever they need to charge for Spotify to exist, because otherwise they wouldn't have anywhere to sell their content.

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