On 30 Jul 2020, Andeddu said the following...

per month. I'd consider Spotify or Apple Music once I drop one of the three.

If/when you do, see if you can start a Spotify family plan with some of your friends.

If not, there are plenty of people on Reddit where you can join someone
else's family plan. That's what I did & only pay $20 /year for Spotify.

Jay

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Re: Re: Streaming Services
By: Warpslide to Andeddu on Thu Jul 30 2020 08:44 am

If/when you do, see if you can start a Spotify family plan with some of your friends.

If not, there are plenty of people on Reddit where you can join someone else's family plan. That's what I did & only pay $20 /year for Spotify.

That's a great deal. I agree, it's well worth going for the more expensive package and splitting it between multiple people. I have done that with my streaming services so they're inexpensive. YouTube is the biggest kick in the balls though, getting rid of the adverts ain't cheap!

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Andeddu wrote to Warpslide <=-

If not, there are plenty of people on Reddit where you can join someone else's family plan. That's what I did & only pay $20 /year for Spotify.

That's a great deal. I agree, it's well worth going for the more
expensive package and splitting it between multiple people. I
have done that with my streaming services so they're inexpensive.
YouTube is the biggest kick in the balls though, getting rid of
the adverts ain't cheap!

Are there any legal issues with doing such things? Sure seems
like it would be a violation of their Terms of Service at a
minimum... and actual fraud/illegal possibly.



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On 30 Jul 2020, Gamgee said the following...

If not, there are plenty of people on Reddit where you can join someone else's family plan. That's what I did & only pay $20 /year for Spotify

Are there any legal issues with doing such things? Sure seems
like it would be a violation of their Terms of Service at a
minimum... and actual fraud/illegal possibly.

It's certainly against their terms of service, it states on their page:

"Family members living under one roof can enjoy up to 6 Premium accounts."

They do seem make some concessions for students living away from home for school or for kids who spend time between parents who live apart, which is probably why it's not closely monitored.

They did try to crack down on family plan sharing at one point by asking for GPS location, but that failed miserably for the reasons listed above:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/spotify-ends-test-that-required-family-plan-s ubscribers-to-share-their-gps-location/

They're still getting $15 /mo for the family plan so they don't have a lot of incentive to rock the boat.

TL;DL: Is it ethical? No. Does it work? Yes.

Jay

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