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Netflix is going to take away its cheapest ad-free plan
Netflix’s ad-free plans will start at $15.49 per month instead.
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Which of These 7 Streaming Platforms Will Be the Next SoundCloud?
Are you thinking about breaking up with the puffy orange cloud? Meet your new music streaming suitors.
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First Listen: Beach House, 'Depression Cherry'
On its fifth album, the Baltimore duo still finds a way to settle jangled nerves and transport listeners to a warmer, softer, easier place.
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Netflix and Amazon users sue to stop Chicago’s 9% streaming tax
Local governments are taxing popular cloud services to make up for lost sales tax revenue. But they face a legal problem. It’s on. Subscribers to popular streaming services, including XBox Live and Spotify, have filed a lawsuit that claims the city of Chicago’s controversial tax policy on digital entertainment is illegal. The challenge to the tax policy, filed last week in Cook County state court, is important because it could help define...
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'All About That Bass' writer decries streaming revenue
Producer and songwriter Kevin Kadish, one of the first speakers, zeroed in on financial challenges songwriters face with music streaming services. "I've never heard a songwriter complain about radio royalties as much as streaming royalties," Kadish said. "That was the real issue for us, like 1 million streams equals $90. For a song like 'All About That Bass,' that I wrote, which had 178 million streams. I mean $5,679? That's my share.
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YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies
YouTube is seeking streaming rights to TV series and movies to bolster its new subscription service, intensifying its rivalry with Netflix Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Hulu in the competitive market for online video. Executives of YouTube, the Alphabet Inc. unit that is the world’s largest online-video service by viewers, have met with Hollywood studios and other production companies in recent months to consider pitches and negotiate licenses for new content...
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As Rdio shuts down, users invited to look back on their archives
Last month, Pandora announced that it would acquire key assets of the struggling streaming music platform Rdio. After initial murky assessments of the future
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The Beatles Set to Stream on Christmas Eve: Sources
The most beloved rock band in history and one of the most persistent holdouts in the digital age of music listening -- The Beatles -- is set to finally arrive on streaming services, according to Billboard sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
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David Fincher, Charlize Theron Team for 'Mindhunter' Netflix Series
House of Cards creator David Fincher, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Originally developed at HBO via Fox 21, the project hails from Fincher and Charlize Theron's Denver and Delilah banner. Joe Penhall (The Road) will pen the script for Netflix, with Fincher and Theron on board to executive produce. The drama is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshanker.
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T-Mobile: We're Not Throttling YouTube, We're 'Optimizing' It!
Last week, YouTube complained about T-Mobile's new "Binge On" service, which exempts many of the bigger video services from user wireless user usage caps. The service, enabled by default, means video won't count against your cap, but all streaming video services get throttled back to 480p. YouTube's complaint is this: for T-Mobile users, all video services are throttled by default, even services that haven't struck any deals with T-Mobile.
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The story of Tidal: How Jay Z bought a European startup no one had ever heard of and turned it into one of the most famous music companies in the world
Jay Z likes to do things personally. So one day in March he sat down and dialed the phone numbers of some of the users of his new music-streaming service, Tidal. Staff at Roc Nation, Jay Z's sports- and entertainment-management company, listened as fans reacted with shock to phone calls from Jay Z. "This is the best customer service call I’ve ever received," one fan exclaimed.
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T-Mobile Is Flat Out Lying: It's Throttling Video Even Though It Says It's Not
Big companies often have a way of tap dancing around the truth. It's rarely lying, because they will choose their words carefully, in a manner that clearly misleads or distorts, but is not necessarily outright lying. T-Mobile, however, appears to be flat out lying. We recently wrote about the charges from YouTube that T-Mobile was throttling YouTube videos as part of its Binge On program that zero rates video on mobile phones so it doesn't count against data caps.
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Netflix, DreamWorks Animation Expand Streaming Deal
Netflix is planning to launch several new DWA series in 2016, including a reimagining of 1980s sci-fi cartoon 'Voltron' and 'Trollhunters,' a fantasy series from Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro. Netflix has expanded its multi-year distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation, scooping up global rights, outside China, to several new DWA original series.
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Rihanna's new album ANTI is available now
After years of rampant speculation and false starts, Rihanna's long-awaited eighth studio album ANTI is available now. It's the Bajan pop star's first LP since 2012's Unapologetic, and it's following on the heels of "Work," the Drake-featuring single she released earlier today. A January 26th report from Billboard suggested the album would be released as a surprise some time before Friday, January 29th, about a month before Rihanna's ANTI World Tour...
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Louis C.K. surprises fans with new show Horace and Pete, co-starring Steve Buscemi
Louis C.K. fans might not know when to expect the next season of his FX show Louie, but the actor-comedian just surprised everyone with a brand new show released exclusively online. It's called H...
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Report: Hulu may be getting rid of next-day streaming
The one advantage Hulu has over the majority of its streaming competitors is the offer of next-day streaming for certain programming. That may be going away, however, according to a new report out of the Wall Street Journal. Time Warner is reportedly looking to buy 25 percent of Hulu's stock in an attempt to prevent the service from being able to stream current seasons of network and premium television. The company is concerned that having access...
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Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps
The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number of discriminatory measures like throttling and blocking, but there's evidently a huge loophole that every major wireless carrier in the US has rushed to exploit. T-Mobile's Binge On program, which throttles video content, is troublesome — but AT&T and Verizon's programs are much worse, especially the one Verizon just announced today in the fine print...
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Kanye West’s new album The Life of Pablo is available to stream exclusively on Tidal
Are you ready for Yeezy season? After years of false starts, buzz singles, and title changes, Kanye West's new album The Life of Pablo is available now. West announced the album's availability after performing album opener "Ultra Light Beams" on Saturday Night Live this evening. The album is streaming exclusively through Tidal, and it's selling exclusively through West's website for one full week before enjoying a wider release.
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Watch Deadpool 2016 Online Full Movie Streaming Here
Based on the Marvel character, Deadpool tells the “origin story” of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and horribly disfigured, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
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It’s not your imagination: US Netflix has a much smaller selection than it used to
No, you haven’t gone crazy. Netflix’s catalog of movies and TV shows really is shrinking. The streaming service’s library for American subscribers has shrunk by a third since 2014, according to a report by AllFlicks, a website that lists and categorizes Netflix content by country. In March of 2014, the US Netflix library contained approximately 6,500 movies and 1,600 television shows. As of yesterday (March 23), Netflix offered its US subscribers 4,330 movies and 1,200 TV shows...
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