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Also millennial. The only thing I pay for is Tidal. Music streams, at least for now, are operating as they should. You pay one a month, get all the content and no ads. I'm using it everyday and it costs almost nothing.
I wouldn't be so sure about that lifetime subscription. Companies already started changing the terms of use while subscribed. Sony's has been removing movies that have been purchased from people's librarys.
I understand why you'd be worried but comparing a multi-billion multi-national corporation like Sony to Nebula is like comparing CNN or Fox News to 4ZZZ Community Radio, they are worlds apart
The founder and CEO posts on reddit responding to peoples questions
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/1qicazx/comment/o0swr01/
At the risk of sounding cynical. I also wouldn't trust any company to stay fair forever.
No, that's completely fair. And Dave's well-publicised admiration for Jimmy Donaldson certainly doesn't help in that respect. (They also seem like they may have previously had a professional relationship, though the details and extent are unclear.)
But everything he or the other founders have said about Nebula makes it sound like they're doing the right thing, and they are very deliberately avoiding the number one cause of companies that were once fair ceasing to be fair: venture capital. There's no outside source that could turn around and demand to get a greater return on their investment against the wishes of those operating the company.
A lifetime subscription ($~~500~~ $300*) is roughly the price of ~~17~~ 10 yearly subscriptions ($30). How many years do you think Nebula will remain as good as it is now? You should probably think of some of that money as being a donation and not a guaranteed product.
For some people, that's probably fine. The service might have given them $300 worth of value already, so buying it's a no-brainer.
* with any(?) referral link, see comments below
you see $500? says 300 to me:
https://files.ikt.id.au/r5f04y.webp
but yeah would need to really love nebula to get value out of the lifetime subscription and their mission is a good one so i think saying you’re half subscribing half donating would be accurate
Double checked, and now it looks like I've got a referral cookie somehow. $300 is probably easy to get if you click through from anyone promoting it.
But if I open the join page in an incognito session, the price is $500.
I buy the music I want to have track by track on iTunes, I have 800 songs in my library, my thinking is that if I get on hard times, I will at least be able to keep access to my music without any added cost.
I do this and download it to local storage. It's all DRM free and I can stream it myself with Jellyfin or throw it on a USB stick to play in my car. Even if Apple goes belly-up or something they can't revoke that access.
I also have 300+ CDs though.
Wouldn’t be surprised if you had a few CD players to go along with them?
That was my plan, but I haven't got to it yet.
I'll have to spin up a VM with Windows, install iTunes and start downloading