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YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by thesdev@feddit.org to c/PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world

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fjärrinlägg från: https://lemmy.world/post/33642043

The company is Access Industries and the Founder and Owner is Leonard Blavatnik

Along with what's in the title, he is accused of reputation laundering against Ukraine and has been personally sanctioned by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was also part of a WhatsApp group involving some of the United States' most powerful business leaders with the stated goals of "changing the narrative" in favour of Israel and "helping win the war" against Gaza.

Everything is in the linked Wikipedia article about him, mostly under the "Controversies and disputes" part.

I switched to Deezer after seeing it recommended as a better Spotify alternative here on Lemmy, but after finding all this I immediately stopped using it. It's as bad as the shit Spotify does and has done IMO. I'm not here to recommend or push an alternative, but if I can give info on what I use now if someone asks.

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[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Deezer nuts.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

gottem

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

So I don't need to feel bad about all those years I stole music from them. Nice

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that's why I use a certain website to download tracks from them for free.

[–] killabeezio@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

While I don't really care what you do, if you have the means to support artists, you should. Either way, sail the seas if that makes you happy too.

[–] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very disappointing... the music streaming options are rife with poor choices. I think Qobuz is the only way to go at this point.

[–] thesdev@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. I was wondering if you'd consider giving the red background treatment you gave to Spotify to Deezer as well. And thanks for the guide btw, I found Zeitkapsl through it.

[–] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'll need to research it more, but likely. Glad to hear that you found something new with all my guides - I think Zeitkapsl shows lots of promise.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Deezer is publicly traded now, so what is the share distribution? You can probably find this out from the IPO documents which should be public.

[–] erni@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago

"The company is 41% owned by the Access Industries investment fund since 2016 and 8% by Orange Group. Also, the Saudi Arabian billionaire and House of Saud royal Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud is invested through the Kingdom Holding Company (5.3%) and the Rotana Media Group (5.2%), and the Pinault family through the Artémis Group (4.4%)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deezer