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Why the current backlash against Spotify?

[Short link to this article if you need it: http://goo.gl/Q1E2H or retweet me ] As I've said before I'm happy to pay for music streaming but this week I've seen an increase in issues for streaming services such as Spotify and We7. This has been bubbling under for a while and the primary issue is that of the per-stream royalties that an artist/label/publisher gets when their music is played through spotify. However the whole concept appears to have blown up recently with some high profile acts like Coldplay shunning streaming services claiming "the album needs to be listed as a whole and not as individual tracks" and distributor STHoldings finding that over 98% of it's represented labels wanting to avoid having their music on spotify. There are valid arguments on both sides. Lets take three typical scenarios: I've mentioned elsewhere that I've bought more music than I did before getting my (paid for) We7 subscription, because of the amount of new musi