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Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax (techcrunch.com)
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[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 8bitguy@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 32 points 10 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! 😐

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago

Innovation my ass. Their UI has been as a disaster as ever. Major reason why I stopped paying for their crappy service years ago

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah similar to Canadian content (CanCon) policies in Canada. Got it.