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Full Article: http://www.cnet.com/news/next-in-apples-crosshairs-on-demand-music-streaming-at-spotify/

I thought this was a very interesting article...less than a week after the music industry succeeded at killing off Grooveshark, it now comes to light that Apple has been pushing the record labels to put a stop to free music on services such as Spotify and Youtube, apparently to eliminate some competition to its own new service. This comes at a time when record labels have been trying to get Spotify and others to reduce or eliminate their free options, and Youtube has announced their own subscription service that has had people wondering if they'll remove their free music videos on there.

Any thoughts on this one?

Bad idea on their part.  Dissolving free music services that are paid for by all of the ads (Spotify being especially notorious at points) is going to be met with both backlash as well as more people resorting to just pirating the music to listen to.

For some people out there, Spotify is a great way to get into music you've never heard before, and they go out and buy the album shortly after.  Talking about cutting Spotify's free service considering it's a "Test" run for a few people out there is a silly idea.  Same goes for regulating Youtube just so Apple has less competition to deal with.