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Without going near your comments on Capitalism, I don't think Spotify's situation is as clear-cut as you do. Why would I pay $20, $15, or even $11, when I can g
by cdh 14y ago
Without going near your comments on Capitalism, I don't think Spotify's situation is as clear-cut as you do. Why would I pay $20, $15, or even $11, when I can get the exact same service from at least a dozen other companies for $10/month or less? (Rhapsody, Zune, Slacker, Rdio, etc.)
If they raise prices at all, they're likely to lose a significant number of subscribers. If they raise prices and somehow keep those subscribers, the record companies may very well just milk them for the difference in increased licensing costs.
- willholloway 14y agoAll of the other companies need to pay licensing costs as well, and I believe the current licensing costs are unsustainably low. In the early years of the internet everyone got very excited about free. Free music, movies, and information. I think that right now society is collectively learning the same lesson so many developers have learned and posted about here. Free customers are the worst customers. Charge more. Inflation is virtuous. Deflation is a downward spiral into the abyss.