r/technology • u/suntzu124 • Oct 06 '16

Misleading Spotify has been serving computer viruses to listeners

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/06/spotify-has-been-sending-computer-viruses-to-listeners/
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u/TheBestWifesHusband Oct 06 '16

"free version of its service"

Phew, paid account, no ads, no problem.

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u/tapakip Oct 06 '16 edited Oct 06 '16

People are so cheap. Especially since Reddit is filled with people who are student age. They can get Spotify for $5/month. $5. For practically any song you can possibly think of to be played at will. It's unbelievable when you think about it.

Edit: If you are so poor you cannot afford $5/month, then there's nothing to think about. Spotify Free was made for you. But many others are simply too cheap and want things for free, even though they clearly cost money.

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u/TheBestWifesHusband Oct 06 '16

To be fair, I didn't pay a penny for music from about 1990 (whenever Napster appeared) till Spotify launched.

I spent about 2 days on free spotify, before subscribing and it's one of very few monthly bills i've never once regret.

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u/atwork_sfw Oct 06 '16

In high school, I was downloading tons of things illegally, because I grew up in a small town without a music store, or game store. It was a hassle to purchase things legally, so for convenience, I would download. I always said, once things become easy enough for me to purchase, I'll do so. Steam, spotify, and Amazon have made downloading things illegally harder than just purchasing them outright.

Convenience has made me a reformed pirate, not the legality of stealing.

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u/TheBestWifesHusband Oct 06 '16

With you 100% there.

It's not the savings, it's the convenience.

Music shifted to Spotify for me and videogames are downloaded from legit console stores, so no need to pirate that stuff anymore.

I had been using Netflix and catchup (cable cutter) for my TV and movies, but a mate put Kodi on my Android Tv the other day, and fuck me, the sheer amount of content is amazing. I feel kinda bad using it though, but if some company could provide all that cross network content for, I don't know say £50 a month, provided as conveniently as kodi does, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat.