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Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I'm all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 17 hours ago

By "canned" I mean "made palatable for the masses and packaged compactly".

Those statements aren't evidence any more than your claims are. For evidence, we would need some measurements of reality.

Spotify wouldn't be the first company to claim "piracy" as their motivation even tho their actions leave the rate of piracy virtually unchanged, so I do doubt their motivational claims. But, it's also not what I asked for. I want to see if there was an actual observable effect on piracy that has anything to do with Spotify.