{"id":301689,"date":"2010-02-10T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:27:22","slug":"warner-music-dumps-spotify-and-all-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301689","title":{"rendered":"Warner Music Dumps Spotify and All Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successful streaming services like Spotify are set to be dumped by Warner Music since they are &#8220;clearly not positive for the industry&#8221;. <span id=\"more-1531\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/spotify.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>The hugely popular Spotify and other services being used to tempt file-sharers away from &#8220;the dark side&#8221; have been dealt a blow.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Music, one of the Big Four labels, says that it will stop licensing its music for use on all streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not be licensed,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8507885.stm\">said<\/a> chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The get all your music you want for free, and then maybe with a few bells and whistles we can move you to a premium price strategy, is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Yet again a big label shoots itself in the foot. The question is, when will the rest follow?<\/p>\n<p>Want to know which artists you won&#8217;t be able to hear streaming <em>legally<\/em> anymore? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Warner_Music_Group_artists\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful streaming services like Spotify are set to be dumped by Warner Music since they are &#8220;clearly not positive for the industry&#8221;. The hugely popular Spotify and other services being used to tempt file-sharers away from &#8220;the dark side&#8221; have been dealt a blow. Warner Music, one of the Big Four labels, says that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}