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Originally Posted by FShoppe
If there is material offered at spotify illegally, I'm sure people report it. Why is it unreasonable for a host to expect others to report abuse?
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It is not unreasonable for a host to expect others to report abuse. It is unreasonable to ONLY expect others to report abuse. You need to also have your own procedures in place to deal with infringements proactively, such as using DFP for example like Youtube does.
And I repeat what you seem to have missed - 200 000 (!) artists and labels are getting royalties from Spotify. That amounts to probably half if not more of all people who own rights to music in the entire world. That's what you call the overwhelming majority of non-infringing uses. For any infringing song that may occasionally slip through every now and then, they can show that staggering number of legit "uploaders".
The question is, what you can show in the way of legitimate uses of your service? Just show us legit users who're uploading materials that they own, it shouldn't be that hard to find them if what you tell about the nature of your service is true. I tried to find something that may appear to be legit at fileshoppe through Google but failed. But maybe I did it wrong?