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And spotify only works in 7 EU countries, due to copyright laws.

• ig1 16y ago
  Not really due to copyright laws more down to licensing rights, historically licensing rights have been sold on a per-country basis. If it makes you feel better the record companies hate it too, I know the popular fad is to blame the music industry, but there's so much legal red tape over contracts it's actually very hard for them to innovate.
  • cabalamat 16y ago
    > Not really due to copyright laws more down to licensing rights Without the copyright laws, there would be no need to obtain licensing rights. > I know the popular fad is to blame the music industry, but there's so much legal red tape over contracts it's actually very hard for them to innovate. The whole copyright-based legal infrastructure needs to be torn down and new ways to pay artists need to arise which don't rely on freedom- and innovation- resricting laws.
• mzl 16y ago
  The Spotify situation is very interesting given the open internal market for services in the EU.