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...So I Finally Quit Spotify
(oliviarafferty.substack.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Your 3c (or $3, whatever) might not be much but they're saving that across thousands and thousands of small artists so for them it's another lucrative way of skimming the profits of the actual creators for themselves.
From what I read, it's more about stopping people using auto generated songs and uploading thousands of songs