Are all these artists and labels on Spotify? Do they get paid for the freely streamed music on Spotify or others? If they do, then I can understand their beef. If they aren't anyway paid for the free streaming, then I don't understand what they are trying to do here.
Having said that, I think Apple will earn a lot of goodwill from the artists if they pay during the 3 month trial period as well. Apple is trying to differentiate its service and I think paying artists in the free 3 month period can only be a good thing.
At the end of the day, there are 3 parties involved - the subscribers, the artists and Apple. All 3 of them have to be happy with this. The artists provide the content and the subscribers pay for the content. Apple should be the perfect medium to facilitate this.
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Are all these artists and labels on Spotify? Do they get paid for the freely streamed music on Spotify or others? If they do, then I can understand their beef. If they aren't anyway paid for the free streaming, then I don't understand what they are trying to do here.
Having said that, I think Apple will earn a lot of goodwill from the artists if they pay during the 3 month trial period as well. Apple is trying to differentiate its service and I think paying artists in the free 3 month period can only be a good thing.
At the end of the day, there are 3 parties involved - the subscribers, the artists and Apple. All 3 of them have to be happy with this. The artists provide the content and the subscribers pay for the content. Apple should be the perfect medium to facilitate this.
@brlawyer "...another ominous sign of things to come under Cook's socially activist leadership.."
Oh, so *that's* what your beef is.