Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spotify cuts its free music service

Spotify, the free music download service (via streaming) reduces the time to listen to Internet users free access to the same mode. As announced in his blog, starting next month, Internet users registered before November 1 last year will hear the same theme as five times. To enjoy more views of the same subject to be paid to the payment service.

Who were enrolled in the free service after November last year will have six-month grace period until they apply the new regime. On the other hand, the time to listen free monthly passes to 20 hours to 10. Spotify has opened negotiations with U.S. record companies to enter this country.


In Europe, Spotify offers a catalog of tens of millions of songs. For free accounts, web users per month provided 20 hours of hearing in which advertising is inserted. In the case of premium customers, there is Restrictive. The subscription costs 4.99 euros or 9.99 euros a month, depending on the additional services that are contracted.

This change in policy could be explained both by the need to address the licensing fees for entry into the United States and by the reluctance of the record before the free services. The U.S. industry fears that harm other marketplaces Spotify purchase as iTunes. Spotify was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006 and now has more than one million paying subscribers and 10 million registered users in European countries like Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands .

So far, Spotify has signed EE. UU. Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music and is close to announcing an agreement with market leader Universal Music Group. Has yet to reach an agreement with Warner Music Group. Spotify has acknowledged that his challenge is to enter the U.S. market. "To do well we have to adapt the platform, language, and, above all, be content.

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