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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? by jlundberg on Sunday June 01, 2025 @01:54AM (#44148916)
True that the full win was due to copyright enforcement by various actors.

However, in the early days of Spotify the ”play any song with a click” was pure magic and nothing piracy could compete with.

A fun anecdote from that time is also that basically the whole Spotify catalogue was full of pirated music — they had not yet secured any music rights and I personally thought they never would succeed with that.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? by axpvms on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @04:26AM (#44167720)
The early days of napster felt like that (with a diminished experience due to lower speed connections). Not to take anything away from your point.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? by jlundberg on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:43AM (#44168475)
Yeah, I agree. Having one place with a huge music library and downloads in parts of minutes was magic.. :)
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