Spotify: Price rise ‘could push users into piracy’

The music industry has been keen to increase prices for some time, saying it could help artists earn more money. But Spotify told MPs it was wary of tweaking its monthly £9.99 subscription fee, which hasn’t changed in a decade. If music becomes “unaffordable to consumers”, warned chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez, it could end up “pushing them back into online piracy”.

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