> I don't limit myself to the music of one band, so i really appreciate spotify This is perhaps a better analogy than you realize, but not for the reason you r

> I don't limit myself to the music of one band, so i really appreciate spotify This is perhaps a better analogy than you realize, but not for the reason you realize. Yes, Spotify is great for music consumers, but it is profoundly destroying the well-being of music producers. Of course, the big-money days of the 90s are never coming back, but I hope most people would agree that talented musicians should be able to earn a living wage from their art so that they can focus most of their time on it. That's a net benefit to society. But Spotify returns so little money to the artists you conveniently stream that music is inexorably turning into a hobby for all but a tiny fraction of pop stars. Unless you want 99% of journalists to be hobbyists doing it in their free time when they aren't serving people coffee at the nearby Starbucks, then Spotify's isn't the business model to advocate.