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> Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy… This is rich considering early days Spotify was built on piracy.
by move-on-by 10mo ago
> Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy…
This is rich considering early days Spotify was built on piracy.
- robtherobber 10mo agoIndeed. When it started, Spotify populated its beta versions with plenty of MP3s that were only available on The Pirate Bay, had unlicensed music to kick-start the platform [0], and Daniel Ek was the CEO of uTorrent [1] before it was sold to BitTorrent Inc. Initially Spotify tech was p2p. To quote Rasmus Fleischer, who wrote about Spotify, "Spotify’s beta version was originally a pirate service. It was distributing MP3 files that the employees happened to have on their hard drives." [0] The company may have turned into a billion-dollar company, with pirate roots. [2] [0] https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/ https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files... [1] https://venturebeat.com/technology/grooveshark-hits-back-at-spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-for-referring-to-the-site-as-a-pirate-service https://venturebeat.com/technology/grooveshark-hits-back-at-... [2] https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-helped-spotify-become-a-success-180319/ https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-helped-spotify-b...