[Mindwipe]

> Imagine the innovation at Spotify if there were no copyright!

None, because Spotify would go out of business overnight as people stole their source code.

[mcny]

The value of Spotify isn't in the source code just like the value of Google cloud or AWS isn't. Someone still needs to offer it as a service.

[JetSpiegel]

Why? Icecast is open source and it does the same thing.

Spotify's value is not running many Icecast servers.