Yeah but how do you create engagement without addictive algos?
I've never heard of allofmp3.com [1] but it doesn't sound like it was sued out of existence as all of the Russia court cases went in favor of their citizens (what a surprise!). Instead anybody outside of Russia was successfully prosecuted or payment processors "illegally"[2] stopped working with them.
I guess if Russia actually withdrawals from the WTO [3] we might see a return of allofmp3.com then. Although you probably have to buy using some form of cryptocurrency. Probably won't be that hard to convince people to use bitcoin atms to watch the Avengers for 2$.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070823070406/http://eng.cnews....
[3]: https://www.iisd.org/articles/news/russia-plans-exit-world-t...
Of course they do this for more convinceable lying to all their population. Of course any civilized country should block that kind of super-nasty resource, with jailing all their creators if possible.
The comment I was originally replying to was saying they'd pay for a service that had no censorship so ideally such a service would charge so "cheaply" is kind of a requirement in my question as there needs to be a cost.
Of course, taking content down for "copyright infringement" is a form of censorship (one often require by law but censorship nonetheless).