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So maybe without Grooveshark there would be no Spotify? A different context for the proverb "I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun YOU!"

• rchaud 2y ago
  They way I would describe it is, one wolf aspired to domesticate itself, the other remained wild and died by the law of the jungle.
  • lukan 2y ago
    Hah, I rather would say one of the wolves got strong enough to play with the big dogs. And is now making the rules of the music jungle biz.
    • Yeul 2y ago
      Disagree. Spotify is not a wolf. The people who actually OWN the content are the wolves. And that is still the music labels. If Spotify was really the wolf they wouldn't have to pay Universal billions. Not that much has changed really.
    • rchaud 2y ago
      Spotify had a big library of fully licensed music as early as 2008 in European markets. They were the next evolution of the record label-friendly post-Napster music startups. They were already the teacher's pet. Grooveshark was the one that was always getting suspended, before ultimately being expelled.
    • rchaud 2y ago
      A dog can be brought to heel and will comply because it prefers the warmth of the campfire to the cold of the wilderness. A wolf will do wolf things until it dies. Or in this case, is hunted into extinction.