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Spotify, DRM, and other musings...

This year my music listening habits have changed to listening to my music library and to Spotify . I found that I really like Spotify, since it gives me the right balance of the music I like while letting me discover new music based on my tastes. It also has the plus that the artist get paid for their work. There is only one thing that I don't like about Spotify, and it's use of digital rights management( DRM ). I can't agree on the use of DRM, since it restricts users right to control the software that runs on their devices. DRM is not the way to help artists make a living, since efforts should be concentrated on making it easier for user to support their favorites artists. Adding artificial restrictions like DRM doesn't do much for help artists, and harm the user in more than one way. Instead of restricting users, ways to make easier to support artists should be made available. In some ways, artists, producers and content creators should realize that ...