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Comment by fsckboy

4 days ago

>The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumer

it's an archive to defend against Spotify going away. Remember when Netflix had everything, and then that eroded and now you can only rely on stuff that Netflix produced itself?

the average consumer will flock when Spotify ultimately enshitifies

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troupo  4 days ago

Netflix didn't lose content by choice. Actual right holders decided to pull their content and create rival services.

Has nothing to do with perceived enshittification by Netflix (even though they have enshittification too).

Spotify is under the same threat: they have no content that they own. Everything is licensed.

  • LunaSea  4 days ago

    Spotify is banking on AI music which is enough to tell you everything you need to know about the company, their C-suite and their opinion on music.

    • sbarre  3 days ago

      The bit in the blog post about the amount of music uploaded yearly to Spotify was shocking.

      I'm sure there's lots of unsigned self-published artists uploading their music in there, but so much of that has to be auto-generated and AI-generated slop.

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  • nimih  4 days ago

    But, Netflix did lose their content by choice! Way back in the 00s, you could pay Netflix something like $5 a month, and they would mail you physical DVDs of almost any movies you could ever want to watch. In fact, my recollection is that the physical library was generally much more extensive than the streaming library, at least through the early ‘10s.

    Sure, they had the rug yanked out from under them with digital streaming, but they very deliberately put themselves into that position when they pivoted to streaming in the first place.

    • troupo  4 days ago

      > In fact, my recollection is that the physical library was generally much more extensive than the streaming library, at least through the early ‘10s.

      Because streaming licences are different from DVD licences for example. Hell, even 4k streaming licenses and lossless audio streaming licenses are different (and significantly more costly) than streaming 1080p and compressed audio.

      > put themselves into that position when they pivoted to streaming in the first place.

      As we all know physical DVD businesses are thriving