Making baseless statements because of some personal gripe you have is so mature.. huh ?
Maybe you're just a Taylor Swift fan and since she hates Spotify you follow. Sorry to tell you, even Swifty's music is back on Spotify now.
Spotify gives especially unsigned artists a revenue stream and discovery platform that traditional A&R reps at labels usually discard for lack of interest, time and the sheer size of submissions.
Fact is Spotify pays artists. You could argue that Spotify should pay more, but they're also building a business that still is not turning a profit and yes, they're contending against the behemoth Apple that's nearing $1 Trillion valuation.
How about you go after the traditional record companies and their execs that were making the big bucks off of artists backs, at least until Napster started to turn the tide. That was the counter culture 2 decades ago until Apple stepped in with iTunes and online sales.
Now streaming is the new turf, but millennials are nowhere near spending as much on music as previous generations did, so go blame the market for being such tight wads.
Maybe when "you grow up" you'll understand the supply / demand equation.
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The ugliness is mostly in people commenting and defending their perceived "best". Yes, David became Goliath and we're all waiting for the next David.
True, the hyper-hyped up media is always trying to use words like "war", but it's probably just a fight over the diminishing returns from a changing market profile. Many tech bloggers are also just fighting for clicks and revenue streams from the new media, hence the barrage of "fake news" we all hear so much about these days.
I content that there's room for many distribution models, I for one still buy the occasional CD, but services like Spotify serve as a discovery platform for me and my dedicated listening at home is usually done off of my ripped CD library.
