Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Spotify raised your price three times in two years. You were never paying for the music — you were paying for the cage. They spent over $1 billion locking 675 million people inside it. Then one developer, working alone with no funding and no company behind him, built a free app that broke the whole thing open.


00:00 – The Price You Didn't Agree To
00:45 – What Spotify Actually Paid Artists
01:15 – How Spotify Beat Piracy (2008)
03:20 – The Billion-Dollar Podcast Bet
05:45 – The First Crack
08:00 – The Price Hikes Begin
10:20 – Nuclear
13:00 – The Music Was Always Free

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