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Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

Before YouTube Music, I purchased quite a lot of albums on Google Play Music. Paying normal CD prices, no renting.

My Google Play Music library consisted of 60% uploaded and 40% purchased music.

After my Music Library migration to YouTube was done ( this sentence alone, is enough doom and sorrow for any music lover ), my uploaded music was merged with my purchases and both were put under quarantine within the "uploads" tab.

No way to recognize purchases or even the possibility of downloading any of my uploaded or purchased music.

The money I paid for the music?

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Edit: i bought 2 - 4 albums every month on average. For a few years. Sometimes more. So, it's not like they only got a few bucks ... At least from my pov. lol

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I didn't know that line was cut. It would have been so appropriate!

She was already suspicious from the very beginning. When Scotty got weird and started singing... the super creepy expression he had on his face. Jfc

She handled it perfectly

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Looks like a Brazilian

Oh, i was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

I grew up mostly in Brazil

My father is Brazilian ( a guy very similar to Rutger Hauer, very northern european, the most cliche german in the room )

Ah, no, my mom is neither, she's Colombian, born in Bogota.

I have both nationalities, Brazilian and German - the most "fun" i had with this, was when i was recruited by the military.

Both countries went "we don't care, if you already served in another country. If you are german/brazilian and eligible, you'll be recruited!"

Luckily i ended up not being recruited at all.

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Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

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All the big companies who owned a majority of cable television channels have all essentially created their own streaming service

Before that, we had all their content together available on Netflix. Like it should be.

Imagine if each record label would do their own streaming service and pull their content from Spotify, YouTube music and Apple music.

Would all 3 take the Netflix way and start producing their own bands?

Music is still not being pirated as much as before Spotify & co existed. The streaming model still works.

I have a feeling that now, that the streaming model for movies & series got more confusing and more expensive than before, the seas will be full of pirates again.

I loved having all of Star Trek together on Netflix, together with everything else. Just like it is with music, it was somehow very comforting having such a good service for the money paid.

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Under the Skin - with Scarlett Johansson. There's almost no dialogue. No exposition about anything, or names - just the short lifespan of an alien. Disguised as a woman, they're part of what seems to be a hidden alien colony living amongst humans.

The soundtrack is haunting, hypnotizing and beautiful.

It's also slow and sad.