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  • EU antitrust chief remarks about $2 billion Apple Music fine ignores Spotify dominance

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    dmitrek said:
    Well it's good that he said that Apple is punished for the past behaviour. I think laws does not have backward power and past behaviour can not be objected.

    The antitrust legislation they violated has existed for decades.

    There is absolutely nothing retroactive here. 
    The law existed, Apple broke it, someone complained, Apple got investigated and now gets punished. 
    The end (until appeal).
    avon b7williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    ctr_proglom said:
    its gotten bad.... especially for how small their region is…
    The EU has a population about larger by about 1/3 than that of the United States. 
    williamlondon

  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    Valdhor said:
    Apple can afford to make all music free to stream on Apple Music. I wonder how long Spotify would stay in business?
    How long would it take for antitrust law enforcement in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere to put a lid on that? 

    Being able to afford giving away your services to drive competitors out of business is LITERALLY why these laws exist. 
    williamlondongatorguynubus

  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    mike1 said:
    blitz1 said:

    mike1 said:
    The US should really should be targeting European companies that do significant business in the US and start finding (or making up) reasons to issue significant fines and other penalties. Every time the EU targets an American-based company, the US should do the same. Time to start putting some retaliatory pressure on the EU.
    Our market is much too important to the US.

    Our iPhones will work differently from the US iPhones. 
    We'll have more options and more freedom to choose.

    Sorry. The European market is not a major consumer of US-based products outside of food and tech. Not sure how well BMW or Daimler or Airbus or Siemens or the French wine industry would feel about being targeted in one way or another. I generally dislike the idea of tariffs as they only hurt consumers, but inflicting retaliatory pain on European companies so they begin to influence EU decisions is fair game.
    a) Europe accounts for about a QUARTER of Apple's global revenue. Not sure how you consider that "not major". 

    b) Every single European manufacturer is subject to US market regulations when they wish to sell anything there. That's how laws work. 
    gatorguynubuswilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple believes Spotify wants a free ride, and the EU may just give it to them

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    9secondkox2 said:
    tmay said:
    Good time to post this about Spotify changes in terms on Audiobooks;

    https://storyfair.net/spotify-modifies-terms-for-audiobook-rightsholders/

    [Tucson AZ, Feb 15, 2024]  A recent, significant change in Spotify’s terms for audiobook publishers and rightsholders allows Spotify to “reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, [and] create derivative works from” audiobooks. (Shout out to StoryFair author Amy Shojai for bringing this to our attention).
    Appears as those changes are not in the best interest of publishers, authors, or human narrators, but that continues a tradition of Spotify taking advantage of rights holders.


    Whoa. That's as bad as Amazon is with author/publisher book prices, sales, etc. Shame on Spotify.
    No, this is a LOT worse. 

    If you upload an audiobook to Spotify, you grant Spotify the right to use your story and characters and, for example, produce sequels, or spinoff series, or whatever — with ZERO need for consent, and ZERO compensation. 
    tmay