Does this even matter? How big is the Dish user base? Dish needs to make a product everyone can use (w/o the dish hardware) before this could be successful
I have to respect Thom Yorke's decision. These services only have their own profit in mind and do not come even close to fairly compensating artists. Thom's work is pretty niche to begin with and he probably doesn't see more than a few hundred dollars a month from streaming. For the number of plays he gets, this is probably not worth his time. Plus, hipsters love it when their bands turn down mainstream services. Makes them edgy and exclusive. This is a good business move for them
True, you cannot audit msft code. Have you checked on the size of the linux kernel lately? Yes I could audit the source, but in reality only a select few will have deep knowledge of only small parts of the code