Spotify, the online music streaming service that had exclusively precisely filed for an initial world offering (IPO) for later on this month, is straightaway neat downwards on users who are using unauthorised or modified versions of the Spotify app to access Premium features for free.
These hacked apps allow freeloaders to skip songs indefinitely together with bask ad-free streaming — features that are exclusively available for premium users.
The costless version of Spotify has sure enough restrictions such every bit advertisements, shuffle-only play, skipping restrictions, together with such that encourage users to purchase premium. These modified versions of Spotify brand premium redundant past times letting users bask unrestricted streaming with the handle of installation files that tin live downloaded with the app.
Spotify is sending an e-mail to users inwards whose accounts they position whatever “abnormal activity” together with warn that hereafter breaches could effect inwards intermission or fifty-fifty outcome of their Spotify account.
According to the email, to find access to their account, a user has to only uninstall the hacked or modified Spotify app together with redownload the official app from Google Play Store.
It has non been revealed how many users reportedly purpose these versions to bask restriction-free streaming for free. According to figures released past times the fellowship inwards December, the service itself is used past times to a greater extent than than 159 users precisely about the globe — 88 1000000 of which are users of the costless tier of Spotify.
Considering the company’s electrical flow losses, it is non surprising that they are lastly addressing the issue.
