• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Oh no. Whatever will people do. I guess they just won’t be able to find music.

    Fucking good riddance to Spotify.

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    They claim they pay 70% to labels, but labels own Spotify, so this means they’re not actually paying artists.

    The recording industry has ALWAYS been pulling accounting tricks on artists.

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      the recording industry is an exploitative middleman that’s obsolete in an age where you don’t need a big company to press vinyl disks to get your music out there

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      at one point, that was the main platform of the Pirate Party: “Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”

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    If your business isn’t profitable without exploiting workers [artists], then your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

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      You people from the logical timeline have no business coming here and telling us idiots how to run things! Go back to your utopia!

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    so many companies would rather engage in collective punishment rather than just behave – see a similar thing with gamble-boxes in video games, companies are happier blocking countries rather than just publishing the odds/payouts/return-to-player …

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      It shows they make a lot more money by being unethical than by being ethical. If it were just a little more money they could just do the right thing and raise prices a little. It’s the same reason tech companies won’t let you pay not to be tracked: they make more money from accumulating information about you than you’d ever be able to afford to pay them.