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Originally Posted by danielf
What legal free alternatives are there (that have a similar number of titles on offer)?
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Well, I don't know how many, but I have been playing with Grooveshark this week and it hasn't disappointed me so far - everything I have searched for has been in their catalogue.
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Not really commercial suicide if it limits non-paying customers plays, I'm sure the small amount of people that will be 'forced' to change plans will make up for the loss of ad revenue. People should pay for music anyway, whether it be subscription, paid download or CD's.
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It might be commercial suicide if they succeed in driving so many listeners away that they lose what little ad income they have.
What Spotify appears to have forgotten is that the customer is always right ... by that I mean, if you offer two services (as Spotify did), and one of them is six times more popular than the other, then Spotify should be looking at ways to maximise its income from that service, not looking for ways to wreck it in order to force people onto the less popular alternative.
We do pay for music - we pay for it on commercial radio every day by listening to commercials. That's how 6 out of every 7 customers was happy to pay for it on Spotify's service.
I think what is really at the heart of this is Spotify's failure to agree a sustainable deal with the record labels.