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