Probably it wasn't noticeable. Imagine this scenario: somebody would pay a monthly fee, would download "entire" Spotify and then forever listen to it in offline mode. And since it's offline, artists won't get payed as well.
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The thing is, you're buying from their record labels, not directly from artists. And then it depends on their contract how much they actually get. But they are still getting more from it, I guess.
ve ran into the same issue I’ve had with Spotify for a while - even if I download a playlist for offline usage, it’ll still try to connect to the internet, so if I was somewhere with poor reception, it’d get stuck on a spinning circle for a minute before giving up and showing me the songs I’ve wanted to play.
That's by design and all streaming apps would do it like that to enforce abuse prevention.
Edit: added word at the end
One can hope, right. I just stumbled across an article in local magazine about this same issue. Have to read it and report back.
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Yet.
I really do hope that this crap is handled better in EU. At least theoretically it should be.
AFAIK with Apple it is even part of the SoC, not even soldered.
Stop this antisemitism right now! /s
Not to mention that MS completely changed their development tools and libraries more than once if I remember properly.
Kudos for paying Spotify (as I do). I disagree on "if they give me shit service" part. If that happens, you have an option to either switch service or don't use any of them. IMO pirating is not an option. Also when pirating though P2P, you also distribute the content.
If you don't want to pay, then don't use it. Regardless of everything, music producers still need to live and pirating is a shit move to help them.
Because she is a representative of a certain non European country committing crimes against humanity and genocide while she sings?