As a result of record companies failing to get with the times,
from May onwards, Spotify will cap it's listening limit for Free account users from 20 hours a month, down to 10 hours a month. Also, Free users will only be able to listen to tracks for 5 times ever only, then no more. People who pay the £10 a month subscription won't be affected by this.
Well, it was a good idea, but who didn't see this coming? Pity it's way ahead of it's time/for a time that might never exist, and that the advertising model wasn't making enough money to sate what they had to pay in royalties to the record labels (and how much of that were the artists getting, I wonder?). At least it was making SOME money rather than most of its users going off and pirating stuff - Which doesn't make the record companies any money at all.
IMO the £10 a month free is reasonable only if you're a heavy user of Spotify, otherwise you don't get your money's worth. And most people aren't heavy users - If you're gonna pay that and go down the legal route you may as well buy albums off Amazon or something. It might still be a good tool for discovering music and artists as they say, though.