Netflix and the ‘Allow Piracy Until Popular’ model

Netflix has had a spectacular growth in the last few years. Partly because the great content, and partly because Netflix policy on how users can enjoy the service has been pretty lax. You can share your monthly subscription with others (not necessarily your relatives) and until last thursday, you could use proxies to access Netflix

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YouTube Music: try to compete with that, Spotify

The audio streaming services should be pretty worried about the launch of YouTube Music, a streaming service that goes beyond what Google Play Music offers, but also what Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, or Apple Music -to name a few- offer right now. And that’s because for a similar price you are not getting just the audio,

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YouTube Red: it’s my way or the highway

Josh Constine on TechCrunch: YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any “partner” creator who earns a cut of ad revenue but doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its newYouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their

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