• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Spotify isn’t gate keeping access to the lyrics

    “If you pay us, you can see this. If you don’t, you cannot see it.”

    Now who doesn’t know what gatekeeping is?

    You also still haven’t answer how anyone “stole” anything?

    I have. Multiple times.

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      1 year ago

      So every product on the market is gate keeping?

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        1 year ago

        How is freely copyable information no one who is profiting from wrote or transcribed a product?
        It’s rent-seeking and it’s gross.

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          Spotify don’t just sell lyrics lol. The lyrics are just another of the features that require premium.

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            1 year ago

            Right. They gatekeep them behind a paywall. This is like the forth time we’ve been over this.

            They are engaged in rentseeking behavior and that is wrong.

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              1 year ago

              “rentseeking behaviour” is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard used to describe a subscription service.

              Is that all this is - you dislike subscription services?

              They can’t gatekeep something that is available freely and easily outside of their service. They’re putting their implementation of the lyrics being matched to the music inside their subscription service. That’s not “gatekeeping”.

              You still haven’t explained how anyone “stole” anything either.

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                1 year ago

                They can’t gatekeep something that is available freely and easily outside of their service.

                Can you see what they are there if you don’t pay them? Do I need to explain a 6th time what gatekeeping is?

                You still haven’t explained how anyone “stole” anything either.

                Yes I have. You just keep ignoring everything I say.

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                  1 year ago

                  Yes I have. You just keep ignoring everything I say.

                  You haven’t, so do it in reply to this. Who stole what from who?

                  Do I need to explain a 6th time what gatekeeping is?

                  I think you need someone to explain what it is to you tbh lol. Like I said, is this just you thinking that all subscription services are bad and “gate keeping”? Do you think needing to buy a ticket to go to a theme park is “gatekeeping”?

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                    1 year ago

                    What part of gatekeeping access are you not able to wrap your head around and how many times do I need to explain profiting off uncompensated labor?