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Disingenuous in that I do still use it i meant...

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10 hours with ads is still free and if you think about it, Spotify don't have to give you anything for free - they are in it to make money after all.

For what you get, $12 ($16 in the UK) is virtually free in my opinion - it's a nothing amount.

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It's the future.

I see all TV shows movies and music being consumed via products like Spotify and Hulu Plus, Netflix etc...

I think many people would be prepared to pay if the price were reasonable, say Spotify for about $5 a month, Hulu plus for say $9.99.

$15 a month for just about any music you'd want to listen to and thousands of TV show episodes. You'd hardly ever need to torrent stuff.

Foxtel will be in the shit if they can't adapt to the competition that is coming their way.

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I think $15 a month will be too low for all of that - these companies have to make money. $30-40 is more realistic.

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Agree. It'll be about $10 - 20 a month for music. $20 - 30 for Films/TV.

When you think thats basically the current cost of a DVD and a couple of albums, to get everything you want for the same price is a no brainer.

Should've happened years ago mind, both industries have lost a lot in that time due to piracy.

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Spotify (non-free) is about $5 a month Hulu plus is $7.99

So already you can get it for $13 a month.

Edit to add: That's US dollars and you also need a VPN or US IP address. But that's pretty easy. Why pay inflated Aussie/UK prices? Netflix is $7.99 too. So all movies TV and music for $21 a month - a bit better than Foxtel which is pointless unless you like sport

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I wouldn't pay that. I'd continue to torrent.

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I probably would too, but that's the problem that the media industry has now - nobody is prepared to pay for it.

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I think people are prepared to pay it's just the amount.

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And there's the problem that the industry faces

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The market will have its say!

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I reckon I could be persuaded to shift from Torrents and the few NBZ's I've had a go at. One main reason being I'm a horder and I'm fed up with Hard drives cluttering up my life. I bought another 3TB one two weeks back. If Streaming is cheap enough then I'd switch.

3/4's of the stuff I've downloaded I've not watched anyway.

Streaming would make my life a hell of a lot less complicated.

Storage v Streaming costs could be a factor here.

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songza.fm grooveshark, deezer, etc, etc....lot of good sites these days.

Spotify in the US, they extended the free play accounts by another 6 months I think before introducing the per song limit and reducing the monthly allowance like they did in the UK, so you're probably good for a while yet in Oz.

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I've stopped storing everything that I download. With a lot of stuff, I'll watch it then delete. If I want to watch again, I'll download again.

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What wouldn't work on "The Box".... and what about hard to get movies ? I've got quite a large collection of 50/60 classics that were sourced from almost dead seeds..... Music uptil now was another issue. Mind you clearing out my music collection would probably only give me 200 gigs of space.

I realise I can just keep the hard to get stuff. It's not in the spirit of torrenting though eh ?

BTW I only upload on "The Box" these days anyway.


Having said all of that, I may give it a go... deleting after watching, After all who wants 6 all watched series of Shameless etc clutting up their harddrives.