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Originally Posted by Faterson
Please note that many of the services you keep praising in your posts above, are only available in a handful of countries -- it's very typical of such "subscription services" to be discriminatory against most people around the world. You simply need to reside in one of the few "lucky countries", in order to be able to subscribe to them. It's disgusting.  |
Well, the issue here isn't really the subscription service providers, but the music licensing laws, which are by territory rather than worldwide. So for a service to expand its reach it has to relicense the content country by country. That takes time and resources.
Each service therefore has to start somewhere and expand in the same way as any business grows globally. Bear in mind that Spotify, arguably the most famous of the subscription services, started in Sweden - one of the 'smaller' countries.
I'm sure all of the services would like to be worldwide, but the cost of licensing and rollout limits this expansion. They're not discriminating
willingly.
Graham