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> every single track on spotify is trivial to find a torrent for yet no one bothers torrenting since spotify is cheap and very convenient

The bit about "every single track" isn't true. It's hard to find torrents for older, more obscure things.

Your general take is right, though. It's easier to pay Spotify $10 per month than to go to the effort of torrenting, cataloging, transferring to your device, etc.

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> It's hard to find torrents for older, more obscure things.

Maybe this falls in to the hard category but once you make it in to the private music tracker, you have everything trivially accessible. I still have an account on the tracker but I just don't bother using it since spotify is so cheap and useful. It just makes no sense that they would implement DRM since it does basically nothing since no one was prevented from piracy through DRM.

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