Technology
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How they can afford that rate, an user that listens just one hour per day would cost them more than the monthly subscription (30×60÷3×,044)
Probably because they sell you the FLAC files directly, too. But you are right, it's a high payout, that can't be really sustainable.
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Something is giving me red flags here if they can't get "DRM" right as one of the main features of the product
Definitely lost in translation. They are a French company. And if I set the interface to french, it says "Zero DRM".
But they have so many blog articles where you can feel that it was written in French but machine translated.