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Originally Posted by _slavo_
I received 3-month Spotify premium license as a gift the other day, and I kind of fell in love with this service recently. It's much fun to put out a Release radar in a car and listen to some new tunes based on my music tastes and shit.
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Yeah, it's useful and nice but they fuck content creators up the ass pretty badly.
Only slightly less artist raping than YouTube/google, which I'm considering boycotting in light of a recent article I read about the way artists are treated by this behemoth. No deals, often no money at all for new artists, pennies for established indie artists with a following. And Google says it can't perfectly police this kind of thing, but it absolutely can, and has done. Google owns the content policing companies, so they make $$ off the threat of pirated material being online. They can get rid of everything and monitor YouTube with surgical precision, but then they wouldn't be able to maintain these massive profit margins their investors are seeing. Google is maxed out financially, making so much that main investors are set for several lifetimes. In order to acquire new investors and inspire new spending and ad sales, they need the threat of piracy to be real. They control every element of the equation, meaning they control the market, meaning they're a monopoly to everyone but the US Congress.
Ranting, but boy does that shit cheese me off.
Anyone who thinks Apple is bad (which of course it is) should research the way google does things. The destruction of Net neutrality will make them all fucking powerful, and guess what? They'll STILL make shit products.
Hey did you ever get a recording of that show you did?
