Yeah, the main accomplishment of Spotify is doubtlessly legal: to concentrate so much of the reproduction rights into a single company can't have been easy. Ac

Yeah, the main accomplishment of Spotify is doubtlessly legal: to concentrate so much of the reproduction rights into a single company can't have been easy. Actually, this convincing the big players to centralise is the real value Spotify provides, and this picture of them being a technology company could be viewed as smoke to obscure that they are basically an IP management company (though I expect the music industry is well aware of this and made contracts that reflect this).