Today, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: " On certain days, we're consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country ." Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music in one place and stream it from there. Ek noted that if they were to stream ...

Daniel Ek, chief executive of the music streaming service Spotify, spoke to a crowd of 2,000 SXSW attendees on Tuesday - virtually none of whom are legally allowed to use his service.

In this week's show, we examine the Knife's new Charles Darwin-inspired opera, Tomorrow, in a Year, with Olof Dreijer. Be warned, his voice is distorted, but we do have Planningtorock (Janine Rostron) on hand to speak (in a normal voice) about collaborating with Sweden's most talented siblings on the unlikeliest of projects. Alexis and Rosie are joined by Film & Music editor Michael Hann for ...

Spotify founder says online music service coming to the U.S.

Daniel Ek, chief executive of the music streaming service Spotify, spoke to a crowd of 2,000 SXSW attendees on Tuesday - virtually none of whom are legally allowed to use his service. Until it successfully navigates the lions den of U.S. licensing laws, the largest music market in the world will be closed to Spotify. Judging by the response Ek got at SXSW, Apple had better hope that day never ...