The original post: /r/piracy by /u/akimbas on 2025-03-08 14:04:31.

In regards to the current events of Spotify shutting down modded apks. Was it really worth it for them ?

I think that just like with Adobe products, - because pirated Adobe software was easily accessible back in the day, most of the generation of content creators are proficient and use Adobe software.

Just like that, for Spotify, even if minority of people are using modded apks for Spotify, is that really that bad for them ? It makes the platform more popular and surely some of the people will eventually subscribe to premium plan. It’s just like forever trial of winrar - without the trial it would never gotten this popular, but now everyone knows winrar.

From my experience, I can say that I pay for YouTube premium and migrated to YouTube music because of this. Although I like spotify more, I am not sure I will come back. Maybe someday I would have bought Spotify premium as well.

And from the technical side, just how heavy is it to stream a song to a person? I’d bet it takes more compute power to stream html, js, css and all the assets of their website than to stream a song - it’s not video like in YouTube’s case, so not nearly as much of network throughpout is needed for music.

Now I am not saying that Spotify should just let piracy go completely rampant, but totaly squashing it does not make sense from my view. Especially since all thequarters of 2024 were profitable for them.

What do you think?