I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.

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[–] ertai@programming.dev 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would rather own my files on my phone like it's the year 2000 than my devices becoming useless whenever $streaming_service shuts down or changes policy like it's the year 1984...

[–] bktheman@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with this. But also, it's hard to beat the convenience of music streaming. It's getting more expensive, which is sad, but for awhile there it worked great. Almost any artist or music you wanted, just, available.

[–] ertai@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Personally between downloading music from youtube with yt-dlp and bandcamp I don't feel like I'm missing out.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Of course. By giving a big corporation money they then turn around to pay lobbyist groups to advocate for shittier copyright laws that favor big corporations. Why would I pay them for this "privilege?"

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

If there is an indie game that I like I will buy it

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Of course. I stand on high moral ground when I chose to pirate.

Economy is broken and anti-consumer. Piracy if the only way I know to balance things of. If I wouldn't be pirating I would just be letting those economic bullies take advantage of me.

And specially with cultural products there's another big reason, as I think human culture is to be shared, not sold. I do actually think is inmoral to prevent other humans to freely access anything that could be considered cultural.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I only recently started seeing it this way but ive had several people tell me theyve canceled netflix or other streaming services because of what i offer on my server for free and it brings me great joy to know that.

I know its just a drop in the bucket to the corporations, but i now consider it a personal goal to get as many people to cut the streaming cord and use piracy instead.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Nearly everything is priced in dollars and I'm too fucking broke and Brazilian to pay the asking price most of the time.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago

U seed out of spite. Fuck Hollywood 🐸

[–] Logh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Spotify only pays for the first few listens I think. Also, the payout is a fraction of pennies.

[–] Skellysgirl@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone found a convenient way for music that’s not perpuating a subscription? I’m an iPhone user and do like my tunes in the car. I’m good for movies shows etc. Dropped them all ages ago.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Bandcamp.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Download all the music you like, whether buying it on Bandcamp or Amazon or pirating it for literally any reason. If it's too much media to keep locally on your phone then host it on a computer in your house with one of any number of hosting solutions (Jellyfin, Plex, Subsonic, etc.) and VPN your phone's internet connection to your home network so you can stream them from anywhere without having to set up and secure another method of remotely streaming it. If you were on Android I'd recommend Symfonium, but I don't know anything about the iOS app ecosystem.

[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] b34n5@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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