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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zrobotics on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:05PM (#19995941)
Which ironically is what caused me to cancel my Netflix subscription. I initially subscribed mainly for the older movies & B movies that were abundant, but as other streaming services have started many of these have fragmented (and many of them just aren't available). About 3 months ago I cancelled Netflix (kept prime for shipping, Youtube premium for ad-free) when I realized that between the 3 services I couldn't even find The Maltese Falcon on 2 of them, and amazon wanted something ludicrous like $13 to rent it. Not exactly an unknown movie.

I had zero problems torrenting it, and no no moral qualms about it; I'm pretty sure all the actors & crew are dead by now and not recieving any more royalties, plus I have it on DVD but I hadn't ripped it to my NAS & don't have anything that can play DVD's connected to the TV.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by filoleg on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:43PM (#19996755)
In case you already know, feel free to ignore my comment, but with your Youtube premium subscription, you also get a subscription to Google Play Music (aka Spotify competitor from Google). I wish they advertised it better, because half the people I know irl who have a sub to either of them, don't realize that they get the other one for free.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by stOneskull on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:47PM (#19997146)
i used three gmail addresses for one month trials of google play music before keeping it properly, and more recently answering dumb personal questions on the google rewards app has paid half of the monthly fee for it. i think the nicest thing about the youtube premium (if wanting to pay a bit extra than just google play music) is being able to have youtube play in the background on the phone.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by josinalvo on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:08PM (#19997583)
newpipe is a foss program that does this for free
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by kinleyd on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:04AM (#19998386)
I came back here just to thank you for that. For others interested, newpipe is available on F-Droid. It has options for pop over video playback as well as background audio playback. Sure beats the always on Youtube app.

It supports the importing of subscriptions but doesn't seem to handle playlist import currently.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by stOneskull on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:09AM (#19998408)
yeah, cheers, i found out about newpipe today. i was pleasantly surprised that it's easy to import subscriptions into it.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by scruple on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:11AM (#19998903)
OT but how in the world do you get that many surveys in the Rewards app? I'm lucky to get $2-3/month...
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by stOneskull on Monday May 27, 2019 @06:44PM (#20025779)
i get in a loop of the same questions. i think it's because i am retired but also study
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by muxator on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:43PM (#19997439)
> youtube play in the background on the phone

There are simpler ways :)

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by ricopags on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:02PM (#19997230)
Is that still the case for new customers? Even if so, sadly YouTube Music is replacing GPM.

https://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-music

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