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> as Napster, Pirate Bay and now Spotify have shown, distribution really is trivial

Spotify is a multi-billion dollar company. I’m not sure what it does is trivial.

On buying proven content, that still increases competition on the buy side for that content. The decoupling of distribution and content acquisition still happens, and makes the top end of the market pricier. That, in turn, means more money to the lower end, et cetera.




They are saying distribution is trivial from a technical perspective.

Acquiring the rights to distribute profitably is non trivial, of course.


Spotify is a music player. This is a commodity industry.




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