Artists are pulling catalogs from Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in Helsing, a defense-tech firm building AI-enabled strike systems. The boycott spotlights two failures: pro-rata “streamshare” royalties that mute exits, and NDA-sealed deals that hide terms. It’s a warning for frontier AI: don’t copy streaming’s opaque rev-shares—build opt-in, auditable, usage-based models that respect creators and reject weapons use of culture-trained tech.