Yeah , but he ' s fucking hilarious . <| sep |> I ' m talking about American soccer fans who don ' t watch mls . <| sep |> Build a firewall , and make Comcast pay for it ! <| sep |> never said that either . But being against a law because its a loss of freedom is being against laws themselves . <| sep |> I run a successful streaming music business . The only way to be successful is to conform to the noninteractive statutory licenses outlined in the DMCA . The rates are low , and there are no lawyers involved . Being compliant means you can ' t allow downloads , full track lists , seeking , or any on demand type of features . The music has to be random and ephemeral . To offer anything outside of this requires expensive lawyers , up front advances , expensive minimum guarantees , and a huge share of revenue . Spotify pays 70 % of their top line revenue for licensing . They pay the remaining 30 % to Apple and Google for their App Store cuts . That ' s 100 % of their revenue gone before any cost of doing business . That ' s why they made 2 . 2 B in revenue last year and posted a 200 M loss . Their investors are forcing them to sell or go public in 2017 . We are betting that they will sell the company at a significant discount . Their only hope for survival is to leverage independent music and selling concert tickets , but the timing is bad for them . Apple Music can run at a loss because it keeps people on their platform . Amazon takes an even bigger loss to sell prime memberships . When we have looked into custom licensing , we were talking about several hundred thousand in legal fees , $ 2 M upfront advances to the labels , and 4070 % of top line revenue depending on the features we wanted to provide . We laughed and told them to go fuck themselves . Streaming music outside of the statutory licenses is a complete nonstarter . There is zero money to be made .