This is rich considering early days Spotify was built on piracy.
Initially Spotify tech was p2p. To quote Rasmus Fleischer, who wrote about Spotify, "Spotify’s beta version was originally a pirate service. It was distributing MP3 files that the employees happened to have on their hard drives." [0]
The company may have turned into a billion-dollar company, with pirate roots. [2]
[0] https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...
[1] https://venturebeat.com/technology/grooveshark-hits-back-at-...
[2] https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-helped-spotify-b...
ChrisArchitect•1mo ago