Well it's accurate in that at some point, the author says piracy is a "worse is better" case because the pirate knows someone is not getting paid, whereas Spotify makes one think that artists get paid properly for their work.
He said in the article (admittedly toward the bottom) that he'd prefer people pirating using bittorrent to using spotify because at least it was intellectually honest.
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Title is arguably inaccurate; is freely distributing by the artist still piracy?
Well it's accurate in that at some point, the author says piracy is a "worse is better" case because the pirate knows someone is not getting paid, whereas Spotify makes one think that artists get paid properly for their work.
He said in the article (admittedly toward the bottom) that he'd prefer people pirating using bittorrent to using spotify because at least it was intellectually honest.