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> costs labor Neglegible marginal impact. Nevermind that most of this manpower seems to be wasted on adtech and bullshit redesigns. Their service sure hasn't i

> costs labor Neglegible marginal impact. Nevermind that most of this manpower seems to be wasted on adtech and bullshit redesigns. Their service sure hasn't improved recently. > resources This was completely self-inflicted. They used to run a p2p network, they chose to shut that down. That's fine, but they can't blame that on their users. > licensing Spotify's licensing budget is a fixed percentage of their revenue. A user that doesn't bring in any revenue won't increase their licensing costs. I guess artists could opt out if they thought their licensing slice was too small, but that's effectively career suicide. Just look at Prince.

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owenversteeg 8y ago
> I guess artists could opt out if they thought their licensing slice was too small, but that's effectively career suicide. Just look at Prince. What do you mean? Prince only took his music off spotify for about a year before he died. Was there a very obvious effect on his career in this time?
- Nullabillity 8y ago
  > What do you mean? Prince only took his music off spotify for about a year before he died. Prince took a pretty hard stance against online music, in all of its forms, from the beginning. > Was there a very obvious effect on his career in this time? I have never listened to any of his songs, accidentally or intentionally. I have never heard anyone talk about his songs. The only time I have ever seen him mentioned online was when he died. Anecdotal of course, but that's pretty impressive for a supposed superstar.