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Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels By Michael Robertson, MP3tunes, gigaom.com Imag­ine a new hot-dog sell­ing ven­ture. Let’s also say there’s only one sup­pli­er to pur­chase hot dogs from. Instead of sim­ply charg­ing a fixed price for hot dogs, that sup­pli­er demands the HIGH­ER of the fol­low­ing: $1 per hot dog sold O… Why congress isn’t investigating the obvious collusion of the music industry. Anyone thinking the record companies aren’t muscling out as much money as possible from the online music retailers (besides Apple) is delirious and this proves it. The pricing restrictions and schemes placed on these startups is ridiculous. If you’re in favor of this then you’re not a capitalist you don’t believe in free markets. Spread awareness. Reblog.

Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels
By Michael Robertson, MP3tunes, gigaom.com

Imag­ine a new hot-dog sell­ing ven­ture. Let’s also say there’s only one sup­pli­er to pur­chase hot dogs from. Instead of sim­ply charg­ing a fixed price for hot dogs, that sup­pli­er demands the HIGH­ER of the fol­low­ing: $1 per hot dog sold O…

Why congress isn’t investigating the obvious collusion of the music industry. Anyone thinking the record companies aren’t muscling out as much money as possible from the online music retailers (besides Apple) is delirious and this proves it. The pricing restrictions and schemes placed on these startups is ridiculous. If you’re in favor of this then you’re not a capitalist you don’t believe in free markets. Spread awareness. Reblog.