It’s worse than that, because as a paying subscriber you are subsidizing listens coming from free/ad-supported accounts too. In fact, other users take away you

It’s worse than that, because as a paying subscriber you are subsidizing listens coming from free/ad-supported accounts too. In fact, other users take away your money from artists you like if they are a heavier user of the service than you - as they get more of the total pot in current system. From the point of view of the big labels who have control this is a feature not a bug. http://www.serci.org/congress_documents/2019/user_centric_revisited.pdf http://www.serci.org/congress_documents/2019/user_centric_re...