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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

So if/when Spotify ceases to exist, you lose everything. Even then, they can just decide to remove whatever music you liked "because" and you now lost access to it. In a few decades when people will want to listen to the old songs they used to like on "the Spotify", they won't find them anywhere.

It's already happening for some movies.

EDIT: A friend just told me he did in fact cache some popular local albums on Spotify, and they just removed them. So those albums were accessible on Spotify at some point, but are not anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well I did say I still love MP3s...

Obviously good points.

But we know now subscriptions =/= to ownership.

Also nothing stops us from potentially ripping the downloaded songs into MP3s and this gives you all the access to it. Or just go rip them off youtube.

I was just providing an easy solution that still gives the artists money. Philosophically, just using mp3's doesn't inherently give the artist any funds when I can just torrent/rip them.