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01: How do you steal from a pirate?
Spotify: A Product Story
Client-Server and Peer-to-Peer Technology in Music Streaming
Music streaming services like Spotify use client-server technology for time-critical actions in the first 30 seconds of a song, and then switch to peer-to-peer solutions for non-time-critical actions in the remaining two and a half minutes. This approach allows Spotify to benefit from assumptions about user behavior, such as the likelihood of listening to tracks in order.
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