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by freefaler 1086 days ago
I don't see it either for 108 USD/year. I get that they need to pay for servers, for developers and etc, but I pay less for Spotify and somehow they manage to license vast amount of content.
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Well, Spotify does it by underpaying artists.
Do Pocket/Mozilla have artists to pay?
Don't know. I'd think they pay the original sources. Agreed that the cost seems out of alignment, but they're also working with a much smaller user base than Spotify. A small profit margin on tens of millions of users gets you a lot more money than a small profit margin on tens of thousands (numbers made up). So maybe it's actually a very fair price and Spotify's is not, which we know it's not.