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Spotify is from Sweden, not Switzerland. And they didn't start with illegal MP3s. They did have an ad-supported free tier from the start though. But it was not

Spotify is from Sweden, not Switzerland. And they didn't start with illegal MP3s. They did have an ad-supported free tier from the start though. But it was not illegal. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify I think it's napster you're thinking of. That was an illegal sharing platform and now a mediocre paid service.

jfim 2y ago
It might be Grooveshark that they're thinking of, it was notorious for quickly reuploading content that was taken down by DMCA requests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark
crtasm 2y ago
Were the claims made in 2017 shown to be false? I haven't yet read the book - how widely accessible was the beta? https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/ https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files... https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4136/Spotify-TeardownInside-the-Black-Box-of-Streaming https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4136/Spotify-TeardownInsid...
herbst 2y ago
No idea where Spotify is from. My point was we didn't need it here in Switzerland as much as collecting music from the internet was a normal and legal thing long before that.