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This is a good way to get your Spotify account banned.

cupofjoakim 4y ago
Provided it's covered in T&C I guess.
thebiblelover7 4y ago
Wouldn't that be kind of bad for Spotify? They lose a customer. Maybe they don't care losing one customer for making sure their music stays private.
- perlgeek 4y ago
  Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers. Which is way worse for than losing 0.001% of their customers. (I don't like that it is this way, but you cannot argue from an economic perspective without considering the other economic pressures on the company).
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    > Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers. Why should the music industry care? Their utter majority of non-live gig income is the streaming services [1], and cutting off the biggest player would be a completely dumb move. Piracy of music is all but gone anyway since Spotify, Apple Music and others made music extremely affordable for large parts of the Western populations - one might argue that Spotify and the few pirates that remain are both needed as funnels towards live gigs. One can say, the music industry, the fans and pirates are in sort of an equilibrium. In contrast, the movie industry is in a different bind... many people who watch a pirated movie won't go to a cinema (the closest equivalent of a "live gig"), so every case of movie piracy is a direct hit towards their profits - and the movie industry largely can't make these losses up by selling merch instead, and unlike the music industry which has a lot of dedicated whale fans going to all gigs on a band's tour the movie industry can't even have that unless the movie is really good (Avatar) or culturally significant (Avengers Endgame). [1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-15bn-revenue-2021-was-the-us-record-industrys-biggest-ever-year-kind-of/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-15bn-revenue-202...
GekkePrutser 4y ago
So you just create another one? :) I don't think it's much of a deterrent. At worst you lose up to $10 if you are paying for it.

Provided it's covered in T&C I guess.

Wouldn't that be kind of bad for Spotify? They lose a customer. Maybe they don't care losing one customer for making sure their music stays private.

perlgeek 4y ago
Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers. Which is way worse for than losing 0.001% of their customers. (I don't like that it is this way, but you cannot argue from an economic perspective without considering the other economic pressures on the company).
- mschuster91 4y ago
  > Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers. Why should the music industry care? Their utter majority of non-live gig income is the streaming services [1], and cutting off the biggest player would be a completely dumb move. Piracy of music is all but gone anyway since Spotify, Apple Music and others made music extremely affordable for large parts of the Western populations - one might argue that Spotify and the few pirates that remain are both needed as funnels towards live gigs. One can say, the music industry, the fans and pirates are in sort of an equilibrium. In contrast, the movie industry is in a different bind... many people who watch a pirated movie won't go to a cinema (the closest equivalent of a "live gig"), so every case of movie piracy is a direct hit towards their profits - and the movie industry largely can't make these losses up by selling merch instead, and unlike the music industry which has a lot of dedicated whale fans going to all gigs on a band's tour the movie industry can't even have that unless the movie is really good (Avatar) or culturally significant (Avengers Endgame). [1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-15bn-revenue-2021-was-the-us-record-industrys-biggest-ever-year-kind-of/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-15bn-revenue-202...

GekkePrutser 4y ago

So you just create another one? :) I don't think it's much of a deterrent. At worst you lose up to $10 if you are paying for it.