Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax
Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating in France.
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Spotify is saying it's "a real blow to innovation".
Honestly wtf they on about. 1-2% tax on their massive multi million platform, and the tax goes directly to support music in the country.
Fuck Spotify.
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.
I have a good idea of where they could have found about $200M.
Oh yeah. Innovation from Spotify. Like their great recent one, copying TikTok for a few weeks.
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! 😐
Also fucking recommending me podcasts even though I just want to listen to music
Innovation my ass. Their UI has been as a disaster as ever. Major reason why I stopped paying for their crappy service years ago
Innovation? The fuck have they innovated? They're stupid Bluetooth spotify only 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.
All worth the watch about how Spotify underpays artists and etc.
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🫱
I used to listen to my favorite music only when someone else choose to play it on the radio. Even before Spotify, it was known that buying CDs was giving more to the recording label than the musicians. If you want to support the musicians: Go to live shows and buy their shirts.
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.
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?
Not a Spotify fan, just thinking about this on the basis of some facts I'm aware of.
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.
Ah similar to Canadian content (CanCon) policies in Canada. Got it.
What have they ever innovated?
It "starts instantly" or some shit.
