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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by EpicEng on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:32PM (#19117836)
>My screen is not Spotify’s property. They are allowed to TRY to display something on it, and it will only be displayed IF I LET THEM. There’s no discussion here

And they will only send you that stream IF YOU LET THEM (display ads). That's the deal whether or not you like it. You don't get to substitute your own.

So, they win, you lose.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by michaelmrose on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:08PM (#19118158)
The user wins in that they retain control of their device which is slightly more significant than the ability to listen to some tunes.
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by EpicEng on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:10PM (#19118181)
...ok so then we're back at "you do not have the right to use the service in any way you like."

Glad we agree.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by mlthoughts2018 on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:01PM (#19120025)
Nobody is “using the service in any way you like” at all. Preventing some certain pixels for being allowed to be displayed on a piece of my personal property has no connection, legal or otherwise, to usage of some freely emitted data stream someone else decided to send out freely to the world.

The person who sends it out to the world might write some things down or complain about what they want to control on my personal property, but it is just not relevant to anything. They are free to stop producing a freely available data stream if they don’t want to. Just like I am free to keep blocking certain infos they try to send me (ads).

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by michaelmrose on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:44AM (#19121120)
We emphatically don't agree. I believe the user and spotify have the right to do whatever they like with their property. Spotify having the right to discontinue doing business doesn't indicate that the user didn't have the right to control their own property in the first place.
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by mlthoughts2018 on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:02PM (#19120029)
No I will just legally circumvent to control what is displayed on my property.
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