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by rickdeckard 927 days ago
It's a ridiculous amount of money for that content.

But looking back at those days where all platform embraced a strategy to "own ALL content", I doubt that the 2nd-best offer was significantly less.

After all, they also paid him to NOT make any further money with the podcast on YouTube or other platforms...
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lotsofpulp 927 days ago
> But looking back at those days where all platform embraced a strategy to "own ALL content",

I don’t understand how that could have ever been a strategy without buying the businesses that own most of the popular music, such as Warner, Universal, and Sony.

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rickdeckard 927 days ago
Spotify is largely owned by those businesses, that was part of the deal to get them to even open their catalog
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lotsofpulp 927 days ago
That is not true.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPOT/holders/

Any ownership by the record labels must be less than 1%.

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