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Re: Spotify was down

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Post by Symmetry »

ianhanschen wrote: post #3

Wikipedia English also appears to be down.

And Cloudflare maybe? They just announced they wouldn't be cutting off Russia which might have been the reason but I think the other services affected use Google Cloud?

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Post by wilkystyle »

apetresc wrote: post #8
gatonegro wrote: post #5

And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.

This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?

While this particular scenario is quite rare (this is the first time I've been personally affected since starting my membership in 2013), I understand the parent commenter's sentiment. It was a little jarring to realize that all of my library's (and basically any on-demand) music was completely unavailable and at the mercy of this issue being resolved.

Again, a temporary issue and one that happens quite infrequently, but if you already may have conflicting opinions on whether it's better to own or rent your music, this is certainly a valid point.

edit: mobile typos

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Post by detaro »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #10
gatonegro wrote: post #5

And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.

You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference. Just like software with a license granting the right to use that software. Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection, just like Adobe couldn't refuse you to use your boxed copy of Photopshop pre-CC...

> You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference

Explain please, in what way do I not own the media I bought?

EDIT: responding to your edit:

> Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection

and non-technically, what's the "subtle but important" difference here?

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Post by bob1029 »

apetresc wrote: post #8
gatonegro wrote: post #5

And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.

This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?

To be more generous, there are also many cases where more obscure music will start evaporating from your playlists. Some of us have serious problems with this kind of UX.

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Post by TremendousJudge »

mwt wrote: post #11
TremendousJudge wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and Twitter had issues a couple of hours ago. weird day, could this be some sort of attack? it's not like any cloud providers have reported issues afaik

Google Cloud is reporting some oopsies

And so is AWS, at least according to downdetector. It would be a bit of a very large coincidence for both to have issues at the same time
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