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In the end, the licence owners will lose. Spotify makes it useless to download music illegally because it's so much easier and pleasant to use spotify.

If they don't want to play fair game with Netflix, people will just keep / start again downloading the movies they want to watch, because it will be easier.



>Spotify makes it useless to download music illegally because it's so much easier and pleasant to use spotify.

Spotify has to pay for the content they're streaming. As of now, they're losing money with that model. You might like it as a customer, but content owners and creators don't seem to, and they hold the cards.


> As of now, they're losing money with that model

Indeed, just seen that they were not profitable at least in May [1]

> You might like it as a customer

That's something :) Let's wait and see how they do in the next five years.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/05/27/spotifys-annual-rep...




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