Nothing wrong with rent-seeking when you actually offer something people want, it's optional, and you don't force them with bait-and-switch (all of which are cases of the bad rent-seeking).
Renting a house is rent-seeking too, for example.
Switching Adobe to a subscription service, on the other hand...
I don't think you can call it rent seeking when it's both completely nonessential and 100% the fruit of their labors. If anything, Spotify is rent-seeking.
Nothing wrong with rent-seeking when you actually offer something people want, it's optional, and you don't force them with bait-and-switch (all of which are cases of the bad rent-seeking).
Renting a house is rent-seeking too, for example.
Switching Adobe to a subscription service, on the other hand...
I don't think you can call it rent seeking when it's both completely nonessential and 100% the fruit of their labors. If anything, Spotify is rent-seeking.
how is that rent-seeking?
they actually contribute to the song.