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Season 2, Episode 6: Spotify’s Direct Listing

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Is Itunes the Saviour of the Music Industry?

Until they switchd the d r m free for the dollar 29 instead of the 99 cent stuff, it was still restricted to five devices that had to be authorized in kind of a clugy wayah. It's like somebody, like, a playing something out of their computer speakers and then rerecording it on to separate things. Though this weird, like, hiss in the background is great at, well, rest totally. If you think about a sort of step functions to the use experience, i'd say, you know, that i tunes was like 20 % better than napster.

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