I don't see what's the problem with the premium access. It the few €/$ of support to the artists you listen to (+plus a company that offers Linux apps and open API) too much?


However, if the non-premium option support is added at some point, I hope it will not feature any hacks for downloading+ripping the music. I think it is quite unfair to both artists and the company and it would likely mean just another nail to the coffin of native libspotify.

Spotify has some cool guys working for them, so please don't screw them this way...

EDIT: To be clear, I would not have much of a moral problem with such hack if there was no official native library (like libspotify), but there is. The same applies to other companies that refuse to support alternative clients - I think some workarounds are just. But that's not the case with Spotify...