Sora 2: Licensing is all you need (jperla.com)

> Here's a thought experiment: imagine if Daniel Ek had launched Spotify in 2008 by scraping every song off the internet, hosting them on his servers, and telling record labels to pound sand. How long would Spotify have lasted? Instead, Spotify carefully negotiated each deal as it launched territory by territory.

Isn't that fairly close to what actually happened though? "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169461