Technology

Yt music for me because I needed more Google drive storage. I just couldn't get around it anymore and had to get more (long story explained elsewhere). Anyways.... The recommendations are generally trash but it's free and ad-free with my Google one thing, which I share with my family, so there's like four or five of us getting it for the cost of one subscription. It's one of the lowest tier subscriptions too.

I also know the Plex/radarr gambit, and it's been wild to say the least.

I swear that if there was a unified online video platform, the same way that music is distributed, where it doesn't matter if you're on Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime video, Netflix, Paramount+, whatever, you just get all the content regardless of platform and the platforms are affordable, then I'd turn all that shit off. It's not worth the headache.

Music companies are fighting with very little piracy as a result of their openness with people like YouTube music, Amazon music, Spotify, Apple music, etc..... Specifically because no matter which one you get, you have pretty much all the music ever. It's packaged slightly differently per service, but it's all there. Sure, it still happens, but it's pretty rare IMO. I hear more and more stories like yours so over, and very few where anyone feels the need to start warehousing music data.

There will always be a market for high fidelity/physical music, and there will always be a few that want their own copies of the music to have, and some of those may get that through piracy, but the fact is, it's way down from the days of Napster, when just about everyone was doing it.

I've long thought that the video media companies should take a page from the music industry and just open up the licensing, but they've gone the other way on it. IDK. Seems dumb.

They're still fighting with piracy and shit, so.....