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I ask because my collection would throw me into the "big chungus" plan--maybe the default plan if I trimmed everything out that I'm not reasonably likely to actually listen to.
I have nothing wrong with the service, but for $20/mth, it would probably be cheaper for me just to buy a NAS with a 2TD drive and find some way to share it out over a VPN.
As someone running about to start a SaaS, this is scary. Can you comment on if you've tried alternative payment providers/gateways?
Signed up to Paddle and immediately got flagged as high risk with no explanation. I complained on Twitter and the CEO had a human check us out manually. We're in the process of verification but honestly I don't have big hopes.
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> "no bullsh*t about random overnight account closure..." Is it possible to predict this in advance? Can't these companies just do it any old time they feel like it? There's always a first. Or is there good regulation in France?
I would say it's mostly the attitude, it's just a very different way to view things and to have a relation with your payment processor ; where there is an issue my experience has been that they talk to you to find a solution together, which may be higher fees or some options and controls becoming mandatory for your account, rather than throwing you away to avoid being stained like Paypal is known for and Stripe is mo…
Processors take note, this is the way. btw, in person-to-person processing deals (which can provide APIs in most cases) this is just how it works.
Note for business owners: Those annoying merchant services calls you get as a business owner, yes, those are the people to speak to. A bit of research into what interchange is, and what those rates are, and you can write your own contracts. It is exceedingly simple and as fine-grained as you'd like to make it (we are nerds, after all). Merchant services partners ultimately want to make money, and if you have an understanding of fee structures, you will find someone local to you who will sign you on favorable terms for both parties, it's free money for them.
Unfortunately too often people will take advantage of those with the best intentions.
I see you got your account back and that's really great. The project looks really interesting and was similar to one I started and never completed. So great to have an option!
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When I was starting up a small business, Stripe decided that it needed to “verify my activity” or some such nonsense and withheld all of my payments for several weeks. Meaning that I could not pay my team. As far as I can tell, a client paid in a funky way that set off some automated system, and no real person was willing to work with me to get it resolved. I will never trust Stripe with my business again.
What does it mean to pay in a funky way?
None of this is discussed with customers in a candid way; as a result it can feel very off putting. It's one of the things that bugs me about modern finance. It's too busy building itself into a governmental reporting mechanism, and far too prone to overreach through the exploitation of sanctioning mechanisms.
It's one of those "can't have nice things" sorta bits.
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In what way is uploading the music you bought to private cloud storage illegal? Google Music asked me to upload songs and I did. Is Google really going to get sued to oblivion? I doubt it.
Depends where you live In the UK its technically illegal to rip a CD to your own PC to back it up, for example, see the recent high court case(s) about it where the government won against Brennan (who make hifi gear which can do this) - no different to this app.
UPDATE 2: My Stripe account is back! Thank you so much! inter.tube will remain online, but open source from now on! Update: I have reached out to the nice Stripe employee who volunteered their email, let's see what happens. It's been pointed out a few times that my marketing says the site won't die, and me killing it would be very ironic. This is 100% true, and I have decided to leave the site up even if Stripe decid…
So Hackernews is once again the only way to truly get proper stripe support?
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Did you miss this sentence, or are you disagreeing with it? > According to Capitol Records, Inc. v. MP3Tunes, LLC, this is absolutely OK in the eyes of the law
What precisely does "this" refer to in that sentence? https://casetext.com/case/capitol-records-inc-v-mp3tunes-llc From a quick read of that, it appears that Mp3tunes lost the case, had a huge damages award made against them, as happens a lot, and the overall damages were deemed excessive and reduced to $750k.
In particular is said that the DMCA safe harbor is available to such services, and that deduplication is not a problem.
MP3Tunes did not adequately deal with DMCA takedown requests so didn't get full safe harbor protection leaving them liable for some user's uploads. Also MP3Tunes' founder had infringing songs stored and they got nailed for those.
UPDATE 2: My Stripe account is back! Thank you so much! inter.tube will remain online, but open source from now on! Update: I have reached out to the nice Stripe employee who volunteered their email, let's see what happens. It's been pointed out a few times that my marketing says the site won't die, and me killing it would be very ironic. This is 100% true, and I have decided to leave the site up even if Stripe decid…
So Hackernews is once again the only way to truly get proper stripe support?
As someone running about to start a SaaS, this is scary. Can you comment on if you've tried alternative payment providers/gateways?