What Spotify Wants
The LRB Podcast
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Spotify's Origins: A History of Music Piracy
Spotify's origins are almost just a kind of right place, right time thing. It sounds as if Sweden itself was quite a rich ground for exploring some of this technology around essentially pirated music. But do you think that it's fair to say that Spotify basically ended music piracy as a proper concern? I mean, I think some people have attributed this to Spotify specifically or to streaming more broadly.
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