Comment on Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax

themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spotify still can’t figure out how to make a profit even with all their subscribers. Theo the 1% tax adds to their loss. Still fuck Spotify.

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  • 8bitguy@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a good idea of where they could have found about $200M.

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• De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah. Innovation from Spotify. Like their great recent one, copying TikTok for a few weeks.

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  • Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are you on about?! Spotify innovates all the time. Almost every week I’m greeted with a new way to fuck up their app and/or service. That’s impressive! 😐

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also fucking recommending me podcasts even though I just want to listen to music

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, what does “to support music in the country” mean? Spotify already pays the majority of their revenue to record labels. That is funding for the music industry. Aren’t French labels a part of this scheme?

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  • blargerer@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its not unusual for countries outside the biggest media producers (like the US for instance) to have rules in place to make sure there is continued local cultural output.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah similar to Canadian content policies in Canada. Got it.

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• ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Innovation? The fuck have they innovated? They’re stupid Bluetooth spotifyoboy car thing that they bailed on?

  Spotify wrapped … yeah no shit I played my favourite song the most this year… Such an inovating feature of useless information…

  They did innovate underpaying artists tho.

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  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well you know how before Spotify, people used to listen to music from their favorite artists? Spotify made it so that you could listen to music from your favorite artists via a middleman.

    🫲innovation🫱

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used to listen to my favorite music only when someone else played it on the radio.

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      • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, I’d record songs off the radio on tape and make my own mix tapes and trade them with friends. I’d buy CDs and rip them to MP3s, made custom mix CDs, and CDRs full of 700 mb of mp3s. I owned several MP3 players before the iPod, and since. People listened to music in thousands of ways before Spotify, and will after.

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. youtu.be/MXudOLStaXA?si=Jog8AWkBNPWQniHs
    2. youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU?si=SbFyIPRWzFf3iM0y
    3. youtu.be/-9qUfJme4eU?si=x5QQOayMt2cZ-TBB
    4. youtu.be/et8R5i5UEjY?si=YItE_cfFqkul9QC1

    All worth the watch about how Spotify underpays artists and etc.

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• Radium@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What have they ever innovated?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It “starts instantly” or some shit.

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