It'd be interesting to see how much money Spotify earned for those million plays. I know that's probably a tough number to come up with but if it is $200 or $2

It'd be interesting to see how much money Spotify earned for those million plays. I know that's probably a tough number to come up with but if it is $200 or $2000 then we can start to consider things in perspective. I think everyone here will agree that it is complete FUD the amount of damages the record industry claim from illegal downloads - and that it is apparent some (though again I suspect not as many as people tend to claim) publicity and additional sales is created from illegal downloads. In this sense perhaps Spotify is almost a loss leader; barely scraping a living on the idea that it's users are more likely to go out and buy an album or go to a concert. If that's the case they need to be more up front about it; otherwise fall outs like this will happen. Of course it could well be that they are just ripping off artists. who knows.