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Swedish digital streaming music service Spotify is proving to be the saviour of the music industry after years of falling sales. Music company Sony BMG Sweden confirms that revenues from Spotify now outstrip iTunes.
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Use spotify's free service, but you still cant download and keep the songs you want without some additional "hacking" of the service... instead of paying the "low" monthly fee for music you cant keep, pay $5 for a VPN connection and give the finger to the IPRED law as well as the big labels.
As for the majors dying... well, one can hope right? and stranger things have happened. One last thing to remember - the smallest of the 4 are on the ropes and 2 others have posted... ummm the opposite of profits... ;) (check ezeeDOTse for references to the above) plus with more people everyday cherry picking what they want from @mazon and iTun3s as well as just pirating instead of buying full albums like the 90s (the way the labels wish)... its just a matter of time before they go the way of the dodo if they dont change business models fast - and there i will be to first dance on their graves then pee on it.
BTW, I honestly think that recent music is just load of crap. My father always used to tell me during my teen days, you will listen to what I am listening now and what you are listening now, you will not be able to listen to after 10 years. He was soo true.