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		jbigelow76 on Oct 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in r... > This predatory relationship has to stop if the record companies want to exist at all in the future. If I had to gamble on who would be around in 10 years, Spotify or the labels, sad to say but my money would be on the labels.

pattern on Oct 6, 2012 [–]

I don't think the parent was claiming that Spotify would necessarily outlive the record labels, but rather some new paradigm for music recording/distribution would disrupt the label's current stranglehold.

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