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Intuitively, it would seem that:
a. Charging for access limits your users and your traffic;
b. Once authenticated (i.e. logged into LP and having purchased the show which then resides in My Stash), you're just another user.
I guess I'm missing something. Premium Spotify members don't suffer more dropouts than users on the free service; in fact, I've never seen Spotify crash or sputter, going back to my early days as a member. I set my playback quality as high as it'll go, as well.
YouTube has a paywall for stuff like this, no? I suspect their paid streams are pretty reliable. Thank you in advance for whatever insight you can provide on the tech side of the equation.