Wow, you’re not joking. I just checked OP’s posting history and they’re really going at it. I don’t see double posting to any given community, but they do seem to post the same link to a bunch of related communities.
What’s the point though? There’s no karma here, so I’m really not sure what they’re getting out of it.
In their mind they could be increasing the amount of content on Lemmy, as they feel communities aren’t as full as they could be, which isn’t a bad thing.
The issue Ive seen is when a bot poster adds a ton of links at once around the same types of subject and all you see in the feed is their content.
The right holders are mostly big record companies (who own spotify) that have songs that always make it into all the playlists. The Artists don’t get much out of it. Other streaming services like deezer offer a model that is more fair for indipendant artists.
They also have staff that needs to maintain / improve the IT infrastructure. And those workers also need a salary raise to keep up with rising inflation.
Do you think the songs just magically appear on your device?
Spotify has never paid a dividend, and a quick search points to that they have done a stock buyback once. I think it’s quite safe to say that most of the money does not go to the shareholders.
Most of the money goes to the rights holders, which incidentally happen to be large shareholders in Spotify, but this claim is disingenious.
No, i think hard working artists like me put them there, and pay for the ability to do so. I’m not saying people that work at Spotify don’t deserve a paycheck, i’m saying the artists need a larger one.
Artists do definitely get shafted when it comes to royalties. But let’s not pretend they don’t need to raise prices at this point. The last one was in 2011, which means that they were probably burning investor’s money to be able to afford that.
I showed this article to a French coworker of mine, and I wish I’d had my camera for the look of sheer disgust on his face at that idea of swimming in the Seine.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor, which deals with graft allegations against high-level officials, announced that it had arrested and was questioning Ms Dappah for “suspected corruption and corruption-related offences regarding large amounts of money and other valuable items reportedly stolen from her residence”.
Hard to be too upset about this. Everything’s getting more expensive, and I’m assuming music rights holders have been squeezing Spotify more and more. I’d love to go back to music piracy, but having an enormous library available at a moment’s notice is worth the extra dollar to me. I do have a pretty huge collection of video game music since the big N refuses to license their music
It's the ONLY company i pay for media. I don't pay for movies and tv shows. It's ridiculous. Like, you need 60 billion streaming services to get the content you want. With music, any given media platform is gonna have the same or similar music libraries. None of this exclusive shit.
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