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I’m sure the corpos that it hurt are grateful, but who cares from the consumer or artists side? Piracy is a costing problem and Spotify’s solution is “keep cos

by moate 3y ago

I’m sure the corpos that it hurt are grateful, but who cares from the consumer or artists side? Piracy is a costing problem and Spotify’s solution is “keep costs to the consumer low and money in our pockets by keeping it out of the artists’ hands”. Piracy was also the leverage they originally had on the labels (better to collect 5 cents than nothing, right?) before network effect and inertia took over. They didn’t kill piracy, they co-opted it.

AmericanChopper 3y ago
> I’m sure the corpos that it hurt are grateful, but who cares from the consumer or artists side? The reason Spotify was able to out-compete piracy (which is ostensibly free) is because it provided a substantially better experience to users. I’m sure the artists don’t get a great deal out of it, but it seems weird to blame that on streaming. Artists losing out to big business has been the entire model of the music industry since forever. In any case, even if you think Spotify is fundamentally evil, and their innovations are extremely harmful, that doesn’t take anything away from how innovative they were. Which is very, very innovative. They completely changed the whole music industry world wide. > They didn’t kill piracy, they co-opted it. Trying to claim that one company licensing a music catalog, and then selling it to consumers is “piracy” is a terrible take, and just makes you look like you have some weird and extreme views on this topic.