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Spotify has fraudulent practices, so morality forces me not to give him income. All my music comes from Soulseek.
Here's a link for you to get an idea of what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_on_Spotify
What other option is there, other than Spotify? I doubt much that buying all the albums I hear is an option, as I hear a lot of music.
This is why you should only ever buy physical or DRM-free, rather than streaming. If an artist goes in a direction you don't like, you can still enjoy their older work without giving them active income via streaming.
Absolutely.
Piracy is a tool to fight back against the ruling class and help reduce the disparity in wealth.
That's why useful idiots have been conditioned to hate it or only use it for 'privacy' purposes.
Honestly, after seeing billionaires buy the US gov and then learning that Spotify is owned by a billionaire and artists are terribly compensated, I have been planning to once again fly the pirate flag. I want to pay the artists, but fuck the current options unless there is a different way idk about.
Might be a good idea to pirate and then contact the artists about setting up donation channels.
Publishers are obsolete.
Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.
I moved to Qobuz for that reason. Much better payout for the artists.
My wife refuses to let me pirate books for her. She wants to support the authors she reads, which is fair. But she decided she wanted to try the Harry Potter books, and asked me to pirate them for her to make sure JK Rowling didn't get a penny out of her.
Now that's a keeper
Yeah. She doesn't see the value in getting entertainment for free while there are starving children in the world.
She's only interested in getting brownie points from other consumerists.
I'd make backups of my purchases and share them with love for preservation and promotion of their authors hard work. "Piracy" was already shown to increase sales, not reduce them. If you really want to do something against an artist you no longer align with, dont consume their products. Don't purchase, don't download and don't share their stuff. Just look around for other artists you do align with, get hooked to their art and support them instead.
piracy is always better than paying a corpo
I periodically delete my Metallica collection so I can re-download it for no other reason than fuck Lars.
I play bass. Metallica cut Newsted's bass line out of And Justice for All. I'll hate them for it forever. I love Trujillo now and still have not listened to a single Metallica album since he's played with them.
metallica are honestly a bunch of babies.
Doing this is not only moral; it's virtuous.
Spotify only pays for the first few listens I think. Also, the payout is a fraction of pennies.
You don't have to justify it, really, but it does feel satisfying when you do.
Which song of his out of curiosity? Just use Soulseek. (nicotine+ on desktop or Seeker on Android)
Thanks for the response. I’ll take a look
Which Kanye song?
No, they said recently
Hmm I suppose I should amend. I have had this same dilemma with RKelly then MJ. I just can’t condone some artists.
Haha, fair
Yeah I pirate all the games that:
If you're going to make the paid experience significantly worse than the free one because you want to implement anti-consumer BS, go fuck yourself
I never needed any moralistic reason to pirate.
Honestly there's so much wonderful art out there not created by Nazis, I don't know that it's worth the energy to pirate Nazi music.
I totally understand the moral pirate argument, I just don't have time to enjoy all of the games, movies, and music from artists I support. To waste what time I have engaging with content from people I find morally repugnant is just not where I'm investing
Pirate away but... i would simply still not listen to any music made by a nazi. Plenty of good songs out there NOT made by a nazi.
Yeah. I refuse to give cuts to amazon, spotify, netflix etc.
If I pirate something from a not super rich artist and I really enjoy it. I’ll send them an email and propose to transfer them some money to support them. I don’t want spotify or amazon or google taking a cut.
If there is an indie game that I like I will buy it
Eh, it's kinda down to personal perspective. In mine, absolutely a reasonable way to handle things if you love the art, but don't feel morally comfortable supporting the artist.
I recommend people pirate Enders Game, because fuck Orson Scott Card.
My piracy is probably equal parts sticking it to greedy corpos and me just not wanting to pay when I can get it for free.
Same, but rather than not wanting to pay its more like I can't afford to pay.
See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.
When I wanted to revisit Harry Potter via audiobook, I pirated the books, and I will do it again someday.
Personally I won't even download it, I even deleted music ive had for years because the artist went maga. And let my daughter use the CD in some arts and crafts, because I can't listen to it anymore.
That said, yeah, I'd prefer to download over buying if I didnt want the company or artist to get the money for it.