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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by Buttons840 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:34AM (#24930867)
Premium also generously allows you to turn off the screen while listening.

Yeah, seeing that recently was a good reminder that my phone is not under my control.

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by rektide on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:01AM (#24931204)
The war on general purpose computing is strong. The RIAA has been at the forefront of restricting & preventing user freedoms since time immemorial.

Only this time, unlike with Betamax[1], they are winning. Backed by anti-circumvention laws like the DMCA section 1201, which makes any lock, no matter how poorly built, a criminal violation to break or even to build or discuss ways of breaking.

[1] https://consumerist.com/2014/01/17/on-this-day-in-1984-the-s...

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by fsflover on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:53PM (#24933145)
> The war on general purpose computing is strong.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866279.

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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by tsimionescu on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:37AM (#24931638)
Hint: if on Android, Firefox will allow you to do that anyway, even allowing you to do other things on your phone with YT playing in the background. And with uBlock, you won't even get ads.
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Re:RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platf... by MauranKilom on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:47AM (#24931750)
> Premium also generously allows you to turn off the screen while listening.

As does telling your browser to display the desktop site instead.

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