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Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall.
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Because they need to pay their supplier of synced (and non-synced) lyrics, Musixmatch.
And they obviously want to make money and free users don't make them much if any profit.