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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by lukan on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:04AM (#43207144)
Hah, I rather would say one of the wolves got strong enough to play with the big dogs. And is now making the rules of the music jungle biz.
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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by Yeul on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:30PM (#43208161)
Disagree. Spotify is not a wolf. The people who actually OWN the content are the wolves. And that is still the music labels.

If Spotify was really the wolf they wouldn't have to pay Universal billions. Not that much has changed really.

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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by rchaud on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:15PM (#43209203)
Spotify had a big library of fully licensed music as early as 2008 in European markets. They were the next evolution of the record label-friendly post-Napster music startups.

They were already the teacher's pet. Grooveshark was the one that was always getting suspended, before ultimately being expelled.

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Re:Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay by rchaud on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:18AM (#43219442)
A dog can be brought to heel and will comply because it prefers the warmth of the campfire to the cold of the wilderness. A wolf will do wolf things until it dies. Or in this case, is hunted into extinction.
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