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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were owned by Epic then sold to Songtradr last month

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks. Did you hear how it affects users like us?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as we know it's business as usual but I would make sure to have a copy of everything I've bought if I were you, when a business gets passed around like that (and sold at a loss) it doesn't bode well...

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, right. Thanks to BC it's so easy.

[–] hyperhopper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They are removing lots of the nice things they did like days when an the revenue goes to artists