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"Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers are using websites that rip audio straight out of YouTube videos, and convert them into downloadable MP3 or .wav files.

Roughly 40% of the music piracy Muso tracked was from these “YouTube-to-MP3” sites. The original YouTube-to-MP3 site died from a record label lawsuit, but other copycats do the same thing. A simple Google search yields dozens of blue links to these sites, and they’re, by far, the largest form of audio piracy on the internet."

The problem isn't price. People just don't want to pay for a bad experience. What Apple Music and Spotify have in common is that their software is bloated with useless shit and endlessly annoying user-hostile design. Plus Steve Jobs himself said it back in 2007: "people want to own their music." Having it, organizing it, curating it is half the fun. Not fun is pressing play one day and finding a big chunk of your carefully constructed playlist is "no longer in your library." Screw that.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 125 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Look, it's on it's last legs, but Bandcamp and Bandcamp Fridays still exist.

Reasonable cost, money goes directly to the artist, and you get high quality FLACs with no DRM to keep permanently.

I pirate a lot, but I also spend a lot of money at Bandcamp trying to get money directly in the hands of the artists I enjoy.

[–] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Bandcamp Friday is today.

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

For those who are unfamiliar with both Bandcamp and Bandcamp Friday, can you ELI5?

[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

You can buy music without DRM on Bandcamp, and on Bandcamp Friday a larger share goes directly to the creator. It's a great way to support your favorite artists.

[–] deranger@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

They waive the 20% fee on bandcamp friday, all money goes to the artist.

[–] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

isitbandcampfriday.com