Thursday, 8 March 2018

About to go public, Spotify shuts the door on premium service freeloaders

With 159 million subscribers worldwide, Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service. 88 million are willing to put up with listening to ads in order to get a free, basic version of the service. 71 million pay $9.99 a month for the premium version of Spotify, which starts with the basic platform and adds the ability for users to have unlimited song skips and offline downloads of music.

Apparently, some enterprising mobile Spotify users discovered that they could get unlimited skips for free without having to pay for a premium subscription. To do this, these hackers installed a ...

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