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      No one is gathering access to lyrics.

      I never said they were. The verb I used was gatekeeping.

      You know, like how Spotify locks access to them behind a paywall. The exact thing I just described.

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        Autocorrect sorry, supposed to be gate keeping.

        Spotify isn’t gate keeping access to the lyrics - you’re free to look them up on musixmatch or any of the other lyric sites and services. They’ve simply added them to their subscription services. You don’t know what gate keeping means.

        You also still haven’t answer how anyone “stole” anything? Who stole what and from who?

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          Spotify isn’t gate keeping access to the lyrics

          “If you pay us, you can see this. If you don’t, you cannot see it.”

          Now who doesn’t know what gatekeeping is?

          You also still haven’t answer how anyone “stole” anything?

          I have. Multiple times.

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              How is freely copyable information no one who is profiting from wrote or transcribed a product?
              It’s rent-seeking and it’s gross.

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                Spotify don’t just sell lyrics lol. The lyrics are just another of the features that require premium.

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                  Right. They gatekeep them behind a paywall. This is like the forth time we’ve been over this.

                  They are engaged in rentseeking behavior and that is wrong.

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                    “rentseeking behaviour” is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard used to describe a subscription service.

                    Is that all this is - you dislike subscription services?

                    They can’t gatekeep something that is available freely and easily outside of their service. They’re putting their implementation of the lyrics being matched to the music inside their subscription service. That’s not “gatekeeping”.

                    You still haven’t explained how anyone “stole” anything either.