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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by quxbar on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:25AM (#17926040)
when I'm looking up not-available-in-the-USA episodes of The Great British Bake Off? Usually Dailymotion, which even has chromecast pretty well integrated with their player.
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by gregknicholson on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:52AM (#17934204)
This is a good point. Even if you escape YouTube (which isn't quite a monopoly by itself) you'll still end up running into some other tentacle of the Google-kraken: Chromecast is Google's proprietary video transmission protocol.
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Re:How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever by quxbar on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:10PM (#17939007)
Right, and they happily transmit pirate video to my TV as long as it isn't hosted by YouTube, because it's not like I was going to BUY all of those seasons - it's strictly better for their bottom line if I buy the chromecast and pirate.
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