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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by nixpulvis on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:28PM (#19997043)
NO, Spotify is a radio service with 0 promise to save your music over time. I use streaming services and have been hit by this issue frequently. It's tragic.

Now I'm stuck paying for all the music I've been paying for again. Or something else...

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by lagadu on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:14AM (#19999508)
I disagree with your second assertion: if the streaming services go bad, the alternative isn't paying for all the music you've been paying for again; the alternative is pirating it all of it for free.

That's the beauty of the services: they have to compete with free and to do that they have to provide a superior enough experience to the user. If that ends, the music industry is the loser.

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by nixpulvis on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:54PM (#20003822)
Your solution is explicitly illegal and not always possible. Not all music is so easy to find over time.