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by JoshCole 1963 days ago
It isn't true that this is merely a 'they'll shut this down too' situation. After transferring music to YouTube Music, I now have to watch ads on the content I had purchased. When they sold me that music, they told me I wouldn't have to watch ads on the music I paid for.

In my eyes, this is theft. Shutting down a service is fine. Theft isn't. I don't accept that company name musical chairs absolves Alphabet of its responsibility to render to me the goods that I paid for. I see this as a rebranding, not a ceasing, so in my eyes Alphabet still has a responsibility to me as a custodian of the digital goods I purchased from them.