Sean Parker: Spotify will pay industry more than iTunes within 2 years

Speaking at SXSW in Texas, the Napster founder jumped headfirst into one of the market's liveliest topics: the amount of money artists and their teams receive from streaming services.

According to VH1, Parker - who now sits on the board of Spotify - said: ""There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] ... Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If ...

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