Spotify Going After Users With Modified Versions Of Its App

Spotify is the most widely used music streaming service across the globe. As the company gears up to go public, it’s now going after users who are running modified versions of its app to pirate some Premium-like features even though they have free accounts. Some of Spotify’s over 88 million free users are using these modded versions of its software to bypass some of the restrictions that Spotify places on users who are on the free tier.

Spotify’s free users have to make do with ads and other limitations such as shuffly-only play. Modified versions are distributed online by various websites that have doctored Spotify installation files. While these versions don’t switch free accounts to Premium, they do provide Premium-like features such as unlimited skips.

Torrent Freak reports that Spotify has been sending emails to these users pointing out that it has detected “abnormal activity” on the app and disabled their account. Spotify isn’t deleting their accounts but the users have to remove the modified software first before they can reactive their accounts and use them with Spotify’s official app.

Spotify has more than 159 million users across the globe of which 71 million are paying subscribers. The company hasn’t detailed how many of these modified accounts exist and if it has at all being a big problem for Spotify.

Adnan Farooqui
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