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> I do hold the belief that Spotify is putting a good-faith effort towards paying musicians and "rights holders" day in and day out.

The NPR piece said they asked a copyright laywer to look up the copyright for that song, and it took ten minutes (the copyright holder had filed a copyright). Based on that piece, if I was the judge and jury, I would expect a company valued at over $8B to have done a better job, especially given how the penalties are structured.

His song was played over 20,000 times, for which he received no compensation. IIRC, the NPR piece said the max penalty is $150k per infringement. Ouch.