[aidanhs]

In the context of the GDPR, I just want to remind people of this thread where a HN user invokes their rights in order to make Spotify back down on a change that would have locked user playlists into their service for no good reason - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371

(can't be 100% sure this is what made Spotify change direction, but it seems likely)

[sethammons]

That was a great thread, thanks for surfacing it. My gut reaction was that there was no way the thread could be involved in changing spotify's mind. Color me convinced

[superkuh]

Yikes, what an enlightening demonstration of how bad GDPR and it's users really are. Instead of taking control of their own music by having it on disk this user decided to rely a third party service and then became so upset when the service changed they threatened legal attacks. Services like this should probably block all nation states that support GDPR.

[Reubachi]

Gatekeeping music availability is weird. In most places, the idea of having all this music locally on a disk is impossible. How can someone in mongolia get a lossless, flac based discography of their favorite band from the 80s?

The music industry purposelessly makes it harder and harder to get lossless file based music for the first world, save for indie bands on bandcamp and the occasional release by a triple A band/label.And again, this is next to impossible in developing nations.

I don't have hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to dedicate t getting every song I want to listen to on a whim in the above mentioned format, and I have much less time and money to manage those across my devices in a format that is anything short of maddening.

[criddell]

Spotify is based out of Sweden.

[l33t2328]

They paid a service and expect that service to follow the law.

That’s not bad at all.