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This is going to become more of a standard due to people vibecoding their own clients for every dumb thing.
It’s all about profits and psying major labels even.more
I think it’s more about closing a backdoor to free product that was generally out of reach for most people a few years. Free API access for devs has been a thing forever for the most part, but the barriers are now lower for people to abuse it.
Yes about profits in the sense they don’t want people getting free access to content, but I don’t think this is designed to net them a bunch of money or anything.