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martyb
on Saturday September 09 2017, @11:31PM
from the that's-pretty-inexpensive-for-buying-a-student dept.
from the that's-pretty-inexpensive-for-buying-a-student dept.
Spotify and Hulu are teaming up to give US college students access to both companies' premium services for $4.99 a month. The new service is aptly called "Spotify Premium for Students, now with Hulu."
Spotify's announcement hints that this package is just the first of many bundles to come for the two services. This one pairs Spotify Premium, the company's ad-free music streaming service, with Hulu's Limited Commercials plan, which lets you stream current TV shows, movies and original content.
Meanwhile, torrents are free, and commercial-free--100% cheaper, 100% less suck.
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Spotify and Hulu Team Up for $5-Per-Month Student Bundle
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Kiss a non-smoker; taste the difference.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @12:12AM (8 children)
Didn't you get the news?
Google Drive Becomes Popular Substitute For Torrent Websites [designtaxi.com]
Google Drive wouldn't be my first choice, but absolutely anything else is better than torrents.
Only an asshole would design a flawed protocol which uploads while you download. Only an idiot would willfully use a flawed protocol to open yourself to copyright infringement liability by uploading while downloading. Only a TOTAL FUCKING MORON would continue to use torrents in this decade.
The cloud exists, morons. Upload or download, pick one.
Cyberlockers. FUCKING USE them.
Cyberlocker index sites. FUCKING USE them.
Why the fuck am I making this argument again. On a forum full of STUPID TORRENT FREAKS.
There's no getting through to you. You're hopeless. Fuck you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @12:35AM (1 child)
And what if you want to upload, or live in a country that doesn't give a shit about copywrong?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:27AM
Upload or download, pick one.
When I upload, I register a cyberlocker account with a burner email, and share the links. Eventually the copies get taken down, rinse and repeat.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @12:50AM
Shut up! My brother taught me to torrent just before he was deployed to Iraq and killed in action. Respect the troops, jerk! Torrents are L337 and always will be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:48AM (4 children)
lmao. random dingus obv has never used legit private torrent sites. places like hdb, ptp, wcd, btn, kg, bib, the list goes on and on. their respective archives and quality control are unparalleled. streaming services, cyberlockers, usenet, public torrent indexers, none of them come close. use a vpn or seedbox if you're hella paranoid, but you're totes safe as an end user without taking those precautions as the top trackers have security measures in place to protect both the site ops and the users. no random home torrenter using a respected privater tracker has ever been sued or prosecuted for their behaviors. not with oink, not with wcd, never.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:34AM
I got sick and tired of reading nasty DMCA letters, so I stopped torrenting and never looked back. TVMuse [tvmuse.com] is my calendar, and I download everything I want from PrimeWire [primewire.ag]. This way nobody gives a shit about what I do, which is the way I like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @05:00AM (2 children)
Please point to a manual on setting these things up. Spread the word far and wide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @06:13AM (1 child)
Not spoon-feeding is precisely how they keep themselves secure. That and a recomenndation system that gets you banned if you let in someone that gets banned.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:09AM
Sounds like a built-in self-destruct.
A invites B. B invites C. C invites D. D invites E. E invites F. F invites G. G gets banned for bad behaviour. F gets banned for inviting G who got banned. E gets banned for inviting F who got banned. D gets banned for inviting E who got banned. C gets banned for inviting D who got banned. B gets banned for inviting C who got banned. A gets banned for inviting B who got banned. And whoever invited A also gets banned. Ultimately, if he doesn't exclude himself from his own rules, the owner has to ban himself, because ultimately he was the first to invite others.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.