I wonder how this works as they've been available on Spotify for as long as I can recall. I assume they will have to show they requested discussion on the licen

I wonder how this works as they've been available on Spotify for as long as I can recall. I assume they will have to show they requested discussion on the licensing long before taking extraordinary measures such as this. Wixen allegedly represent Neil Young who is founder of a now defunct (I believe) digital music distribution service called Pono^ focused around lossless encoding. To quote Neil himself (as CEO) when he had to shut the service down by Apple acquiring their store partner=. he said: I had to put up with lots of criticism for the high cost of music delivered in the way all music should be provided, at full resolution and not hollowed out. I had no control over the pricing, but I was the one that felt the criticism, because I was the face of it. And I pretty much agreed with the criticism. Music should not be priced this way. Basically he was squeezed by licensers to pay more because he had a higher fidelity product: Record companies believe they should charge a premium for high res recordings and conversely, I believe all music should cost the same, regardless of the technology used. I think they just wanted him to not cloud much much bigger deals and gave him the cold shoulder. Young is one of the most productive workers in the history of music and clearly a dedicated, business minded chap. I'd have a hard time believing he isn't involved in this in some way or perhaps the death of their client Tom Petty has liberated their ability to pursue anti consumer legal avenues for short term revenue generation. ^ https://www.ponomusic.com/ https://www.ponomusic.com/ = http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-pono-neil-young-kills-off-his-digital-player-20170423 http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-pono-neil-young-kills-off-...