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$100m in revenue in a year? Wow!

• ToucanLoucan 2y ago
  Okay so like, I have a lot of gripes with IP law especially copyright law, but if I understand this right: - Musi uses YouTube videos of songs instead of audio files to stream music - I'm gonna assume that they clip YouTube ads and do not require a YouTube premium account, otherwise why would anyone care So like, yeah, your business gets a lot more profitable if you just don't take on the expenses of providing the service you're providing, in this case, using YouTube to host your media, with an in-between app that doesn't support their monetization by itself. A streaming service makes a lot more money if you don't... license the music. And granted the "harmed" parties in this are Alphabet and the Music industry so like, I am certainly not going to be crying myself to sleep over this. But like... come on. This is extremely into the gray area of music piracy, and like, I don't respect those laws either, but if you just automate piracy and put it on the fuggen App Store, yeah I imagine Apple would do something about that? Frankly I'm shocked Google is still okay with it on Android. But yeah, as I said in an older comment, if you want a unicorn, the formula is actually quite straightforward if cynical as fuck: find a way to provide a service real businesses provide, without paying any of the expenses. A taxi company that owns no taxis, a hotel company that owns no hotels, or in this case, a music streamer that doesn't buy or even host the music.