Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio

• ugjka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yet they can bring in the fear factor blockhead and other hot garbage for how many hundreds of millions of dollars?

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  • Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s funny, Rogan lost me as a listener right around the time he made the Spotify deal.

    At the time I actually had Spotify premium too, I just wasn’t interested in the conspiracy right wing shit.

    Then I pretty quickly got fed up with Spotify and dropped my sub altogether.

    YARRRRR.

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    • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When has he pushed right wing conspiracies? He seems to push back against them.

      I will admit that he is a huge sucker simp for Tim Pool claiming to be progressive. Tim Pool repeats talking points for the Daily Wire and claims to be against the establishment.

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      • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty constantly. I don’t have any examples on hand since I don’t generally waste my time with him, but anti-vax conspiracies were very common to see from him during the pandemic.

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re joking, right? You’re asking when a known rightwing nutjob has spread rightwing nonsense…

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• ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean there are ads… does the ad revenue not counteract the licensing fees?

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  • stockRot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How many people use ad blockers?

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not like when an ad is served and seen by the user, the user always buys the advertised product…

      They should come up with ad blockers, that block the ad on the user side, but did the system behind it, the ad is still being served and no one loses anything.

      I guess, this is, what the ones are doing, that still work.

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• kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s like the big awakening of licence holders. Like someone finally explained to them what the internet is, how it works, etc. All around, things are starting to get re-structured in the way it worked in irl before. The same charges and middlemen.

  The gates to the open internet are being closed and the registers are being set up.

  We’re also not a consumer anymore, but a subscriber. A subscriber can be traced, bound to your product for a lifetime.

  I only hope that, unlike movies and series, big labels don’t get the idea of starting their own music streaming services and end the licensing to all existing music streamers.

  For now it’s like Netflix in the old days. All streamers have about the same catalog in music.

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• Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can’t expect to listen to music for free when license holders charge ridiculous fees.

  Except I can - there are amazing artists out there releasing their music for free.

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  • porkins@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are a public company that was $4B negative free cash flow last year. The employees get paid, but I’d love for you to describe the mechanism where a board member derives value when the stock has tanked over the past two years unless you are saying that they are shorting it, which would be public information and get them kicked off the board typically.

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