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Spotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
(www.latimes.com)
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I just use streaming services to find new music to download.
Partying here like it's 2005!!
In all seriousness Spotify has always been a sneaky way for label executives to get even richer, at the behest of artistic efforts. They've always been trying to practically enslave musicians, for pennies, and services like Spotify help them get away with it more by pretending it's a solution to piracy. I just think that piracy angle was a big ruse to further control and rip out those final stitches in their pockets.
It's worse when it's found that the top artists can just pay to be recommended (e.g.: the Drake situation not too long ago) making it even harder for some to get much of a reach if at all.
Probably why so many artists are going independent these days. I bought a few albums lately, direct from the artist websites, and I don't even need to look at the stats to know a great amount of those payments went to the musicians.