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Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry… and as far as Warner Music is concerned, it will not be licensed. So, this sort of ‘get all the music you want for free and then maybe we can—with a few bells and whistles—move you to a premium price’ strategy is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future.
Said a skeptic Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. when asked about a deal with Spotify, a popular European freemium music-as-a-service that ironically may help solve piracy and save the industry.  His model needs updating to account for: 1) new sales resulting from new music discoveries that inevitably occur in such large-scale free sharing, and 2) positive impact of reduced piracy as the service makes doing torrents not worth the inconvenience or risk.

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