Wow! What a blast from the past. I remember 13yo spending day after day on this game despite being an avid crpg player those days.

Going to give this a spin after work. Thanks for the work and the writeup!

Indeed, very strong "One fish turns to another and asks, What is water?" vibes.

Even if you exclude all the discoverability functionality, just the pure distribution aspect, at this scale, makes the Spotify system impressive. Why should that system and all the work that went into it, be free?

I don't think there are any legal barriers for someone to go ahead and build their own music distribution system that is more fair than Spotify. It's just a matter of putting in the time, no?