• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    His point is legitimate, though. Content people aren’t willing to pay for is a net cost.

    There’s some line where permissive ability to upload costs them money.

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      1 year ago

      That cost is paid 100000000000000x over from the other artists they are underpaying. If this was really such an issue of cost, and not penny pinching, they would have a filter for content that isnt played enough and remove it from the service.

      Why dont they? Because they cost is almost nil, its covered a thousand times over by the money gained from the platform, and they just want to keep more cash from the people they know cant fight back.

      His point doesnt apply to spotify. They arent a struggling indie service trying to cover server costs. Massive super star artists frequently complain about penny pinching from spotify. Theyre just greedy.