Spotify was founded in 2006 by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and launched two years later. Ek envisioned a service that would give listeners convenient, legal access to copyrighted music at a time when online music piracy was widespread. Spotify acquired rights to music from record labels and offered listeners an alternative to unauthorized file-sharing services such as Napster.
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