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I don't think so. Streaming services are used for convenience. Torrenting and managing music at this scale is inconvenient.

Distributing these huge torrents is the perfect way to avoid any real damage to artists while being invaluable to preservation of culture.

> this will hurt artists a lot as they need the fees paid by Spotify to make ends meet.

Anyone using DRM/paracopyright to "make their ends meet" deserves what they get. This is de facto theft from the public domain.

I hate spotify as a company but I agree, at least in my case, a large share of my wife's income comes from spotify.