Was Swift going to abstain for the three months?
She and her company surely did not need to abstain, it would certainly not have been any financial hardship for them.
But now, the majors will all be involved and swamp the indies.
This only helps already established corporate acts and greatly hurts exposure of lesser know independents and smaller labels.
It was in no way an altruistic move, in fact quite the opposite.
No, she wasn’t going to let them license her albums at all. Or something like that.