- Some Spotify users have said they could access music
- Regular applications users were not affected; It is a repression of “cracked” applications
- Package applications users are not prohibited
Many Spotify users have been unable to access the service – and the reason seems to be the use of cracked or otherwise unauthorized applications.
Some Spotify reports have apparently started to circulate on March 3, but it turned out that the service was not available for a very specific group of users: people using applications based on the very unofficial Spotify Premium APK.
The Spotify Premium APK aims to allow people to access a part or all the features of Spotify Premium without being Spotify Premium subscribers (that is to say without paying for the music streaming service), and it seems to have been blocked on March 3.
What’s going on?
Why some Spotify users find that their applications do not work
Techradar understands that the reported application problems are indeed due to Spotify taking routine measures to apply its terms and conditions, which prohibits the use of cracked applications. And we also understand that no one who uses such applications will be struck by the prohibition hammer: they will simply be returned to the free service.
Some sites have suggested that the steep disappearance of the APK exposes users at risk: they say that if users now blocked are looking for alternative ways to deceive the system, they could find themselves in the parts of the application downloading websites where malware and fraudsters tend to come together. And it’s true, but of course, this is not the Spotify problem.
What surprised me is how many people seem to prefer the risk that cracked applications are content to stick to a free sub-sous-sous-marin sub-sous, obtaining quality more than something else or simply putting their old-fashioned hats and downloading specific songs from the usual places.
And that makes me ask me: what they appreciate here if it is not music? Would they still want a cracked application if Spotify offered the same premium features, but that music was made by AI instead? I’m not sure I want to know the answer to that one.
