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Re:Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue by jbigelow76 on Saturday October 06, 2012 @12:25PM (#4620910)
> This predatory relationship has to stop if the record companies want to exist at all in the future.

If I had to gamble on who would be around in 10 years, Spotify or the labels, sad to say but my money would be on the labels.

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Re:Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue by pattern on Saturday October 06, 2012 @06:12PM (#4621920)
I don't think the parent was claiming that Spotify would necessarily outlive the record labels, but rather some new paradigm for music recording/distribution would disrupt the label's current stranglehold.
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