[evertonfuller]

You must be joking. Spotify paid out 0.003 per play on my last royalty statement. Pathetic. The sooner Spotify goes under, the better for the music industry.

[icebraining]

What makes you think you'd have made more money if Spotify didn't exist?

[chrischen]

You would buy the CD, or pay for the download. Doing that is way less justifiable when it's available on Spotify.

[icebraining]

Do you seriously think people would buy the CDs of all the music they listen to in Spotify if it went offline? And go from spending $10/month to hundreds?

That kind of assumptions is what leads the RIAA to calculate losses bigger than the entire world's GDP.

[chrischen]

No, but people might do it for the handful of artists they really like or believe in.