Could someone please help me understand how Spotify is not a VLOP as per the EU DSA?

The DSA has a monthly average users threshold of 45M in the EU. Spotify MAU in Q3 2025 were 713M, of which 28–36% estimated in Europe, which means at least 200M in Europe.

Europe != EU, but I refuse to believe that of the at least 200M European users, more than 75% are from non-EU European countries.

So, what the hell? What am I missing?

#DSA #EU #Spotify

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

Hat jemand von Euch 300 TB Speicherplatz für den Privatgebrauch in der Schweiz übrig? 😬

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Da kann man sehr lange für Streaming bezahlen, bis sich das lohnt … 💸💸💸

#spotify #annasarchive #copyright #urheberrecht

It's kind of easy to see how broken and morally bankrupt the #MusicStreaming business model by #Spotify and Co is if you consider that none of the major streaming services simply bans #AI generated #music. They just want to keep you streaming. They don't give a flying fuck about art, artists and music.

#AIMusic #Streaming #capitalism #Aicrap

The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: Spotify reaction)

Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped, and it's already on torrents.

https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-annas-archive-3627023/

#Spotify #AnnasArchive #music #piracy #backup #technology

Unerwünschtes Spotify-Backup zeigt Statistiken und Metadaten

Spotify ist ungehalten, weil Anna’s Archive einen Teil der Spotify-Datenbank heruntergeladen hat und veröffentlichen möchte. 300 Terabyte.

https://www.heise.de/news/Unerwuenschtes-Spotify-Backup-zeigt-Statistiken-und-Metadaten-11123532.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #Musik #Musikstreaming #Spotify #Streaming #news

@EUCommission

So you want people to create accounts with " #Spotify", a predatory company that gives mere pennies to most artists, to fill the pockets of a few.

Which other streaming services are you partnering with, to funnel people into their signup processes?

Libreria musicale Spotify sequestrata da un gruppo di attivisti pirati

Lo scraping avrebbe avuto accesso a 86 milioni di file audio. #Spotify afferma di aver "identificato e disabilitato gli account utente illeciti che hanno effettuato lo scraping illegale".

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-library-leak-1236143970/

@pirati

Unerwünschtes Spotify-Backup zeigt Statistiken und Metadaten

Spotify ist ungehalten, weil Anna’s Archive einen Teil der Spotify-Datenbank heruntergeladen hat und veröffentlichen möchte. 300 Terabyte.

https://www.heise.de/news/Unerwuenschtes-Spotify-Backup-zeigt-Statistiken-und-Metadaten-11123532.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Entertainment #Musik #Musikstreaming #Spotify #Streaming #news

Ethics doesn’t exist in capitalism. But cowing to ethics does.

Boycotts exist because that’s the rule of law with corporations: all decisions are made based on their monetary value.

We have SO much power in the boycott. But they fool us.

Like RATM says: “what does the billboard say? Come and play, come and play. Forget about the movement.”

Let’s turn that around. ✊🏻

#Capitalism #Boycott #PowerToThePeople #Protest #Spotify #EatTheRich

I wonder if #IPFS can handle 300TB of #Spotify scrape. Would be much more accessible than #Bittorrent

There is now a slightly bigger music database than the one we provided in the #Databases course: The metadata for 256 million of #Spotify tracks are torrented as 9 files of about 22GB each by Anna's Archive

https://annas-archive.li/torrents/spotify

The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: Spotify reaction)

Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped, and it's already on torrents.

https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-annas-archive-3627023/

#Spotify #AnnasArchive #music #piracy #backup #technology

Hat jemand von Euch 300 TB Speicherplatz für den Privatgebrauch in der Schweiz übrig? 😬

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Da kann man sehr lange für Streaming bezahlen, bis sich das lohnt … 💸💸💸

#spotify #annasarchive #copyright #urheberrecht

@EUCommission

So you want people to create accounts with " #Spotify", a predatory company that gives mere pennies to most artists, to fill the pockets of a few.

Which other streaming services are you partnering with, to funnel people into their signup processes?

Could someone please help me understand how Spotify is not a VLOP as per the EU DSA?

The DSA has a monthly average users threshold of 45M in the EU. Spotify MAU in Q3 2025 were 713M, of which 28–36% estimated in Europe, which means at least 200M in Europe.

Europe != EU, but I refuse to believe that of the at least 200M European users, more than 75% are from non-EU European countries.

So, what the hell? What am I missing?

#DSA #EU #Spotify

Good day all!

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If you're following via #Spotify you'll have to search for the new Fireside Fedi and it's the one WITHOUT Fedicast in the name. :-D

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