Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish commercial music streaming, podcast and video service that provides digital rights management-protected content from record labels and media companies. It is available in most of the Americas, Western Europe and Oceania. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label. Spotify operates under a freemium business model, with two music streaming tiers: Spotify Free (160kbit/s) and Spotify Premium (up to 320kbit/s). Paid Premium subscriptions remove advertisements, improve audio quality and allow users to download music for offline listening. Thom Yorke and Taylor Swift's discography have been pulled from Spotify with Swift claiming "And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music." In response Spotify claims that they are benefiting the music business by migrating "them away from piracy and less monetised platforms and allowing them to generate far greater royalties than before" by encouraging users to use their paid service.