And that's exactly why Spotify is leaving.
raptir
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This practice is most common with in-store "doorbuster" type deals.
I hate to justify a corporation's prices for them, but I have to imagine building and maintaining a network that covers the better part of a country the size of the US is more expensive. The US is twice the size of the entire EU and I imagine your carrier doesn't cover the EU directly but has roaming agreements.
Where are they getting the training data from for AI music models? I guess it's the same issue as art and language models, but wouldn't they need to only use royalty free music?
That's a complicated question because of "grandfathering." I pay $50 per month per line for my plan, and that includes unlimited high-speed data in the US. My plan would cost $75 per month per line now for the same benefits, but there is a new cheaper plan that does not include the roaming data but it also has "deprioritized" data in the US.
That said, it's still only $35 (I was wrong about the price above, but still not terrible) to add 5GB of international data for a month, even on a plan that doesn't include any. There is never the "pay per MB at an insane rate" option.
I mean that's pretty excessive. I'm in the US and I get 5GB of high speed data in Morocco and unlimited throttled, and it's only $25 for another 5GB. 11k for 3.8GB is ridiculous.
There was a series of three tweets and no follow-up. I wouldn't necessarily assert it so strongly.
The main issue with Usenet is retention. I don't mean that you should worry too much about retention on your particular providers, but just as a general concept the idea that after 10-15 years files go away means that it can be tough to find older media, especially media that is not popular enough for people to reupload.
People always talk about needing multiple servers but I just use Astraweb and I have been fine. I have a block plan on another server somewhere but I honestly didn't even set it up when I reconfigured nzbget.
Movies and TV shows have been super easy to find on Usenet, but even with a couple private indexers I have found music and books to be hit or miss. I use Tidal with Plex and the $10 per month has been worth it to me simply because I listen to a ton of different music. That said, probably 80% of what I listen to has been available on Usenet.
I read a lot of nerdy books (fantasy and sci-fi) and that's been easy enough to find, but my wife's more mainstream tastes have actually been trickier.
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Okay.
Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.
You want truth said to your face, there it is.
Yeah I was still on the plane and it was in airplane mode.
That's not just Spotify though. Everyone uses a similar algorithm. Deezer and Tidal have talked about implementing user-centric payments but have not done so.