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by jcrei 3375 days ago
As opposed to Spotify, which only acts as a distribution platform, and therefore plays nicely with all labels. Imagine if Spotify would "become" a label and start producing music directly with artists... They'd quickly be shunned by the record labels
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Netflix didn't have original content for a long time, but they still had a lot of trouble with the studios. Their original content was (probably) a response to that.

So the situation isn't quite the same.