Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year

Re:Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More... by basisword on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:49AM (#42934944)

I'm not sure how much I believe this argument. I think the number of people under 30 that can pirate music and manage to load it on to a phone is smaller than you think. Not to mention the fact that being limited to listening to only the music you have pirated (and have storage capacity for) is probably a bizarre concept to younger people who are pretty used to paying a small subscription fee for access to everything.

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Re:Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More... by scarface_74 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:40PM (#42938265)

In the US, 70% of the population have iPhones and that number is greater for the younger skewing population.

First you have to go through the trouble of pirating the music from your computer since you can’t easily do it directly from your phone.

Even if you could, you can’t download music on your phone outside of iTunes and put it into your music library [1]. That means you have to add the music to your iTunes library from your computer and then sync it to your phone.

Or you can just pay for a streaming service. But even since 2003 when you could buy music from iTunes, pirating just wasn’t worth the trouble. That was even more so after the iPhone and being able to buy music directly on your phone in 2007.

[1] there is one ugly hack using GarageBand.

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