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I don't get it. How does the music industry make money through spotify? Can spotify users copy the music to their iPod? Unless there is a good answer to those t

by beza1e1 18y ago

I don't get it. How does the music industry make money through spotify? Can spotify users copy the music to their iPod? Unless there is a good answer to those two questions, i can't imagine spotify as a wide-spread alternative to piracy.

allertonm 18y ago
To answer your first question, the app is either paid ($9.99/mo sub) or comes with ads. As for the second, well... I've heard that they make iPods now that can connect directly to the internets. Syncing music across a wire is _so_ 2001. More seriously, I imagine that the whole "copy to iPod" thing is such a minefield (especially with the music industry involved) that they have no intention of going there and are betting on a disruptive shift towards music players that are connected (almost) everywhere - with the iPod Touch and iPhone being the first examples of that. I would be deeply surprised if they didn't have an Cocoa Touch client (along the lines of Pandora and last.fm) in the works.
- netcan 18y ago
  $9.99/mo sub) or comes with ads Sounds like a concession.