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.
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.
Don’t forget that they fund the military complex.
Daniel Ek? More like Daniel Ick
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.
Spotify only pays for the first few listens I think. Also, the payout is a fraction of pennies.
piracy is always better than paying a corpo
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 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.
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:
- Require an internet connection
- Use Denuvo
- Require a dedicated launcher
- Require a connected account
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
Also rootkit anti cheat.
Yeh I am not a gamer but have a family of them. As the tech person I’m usually the one dealing with purchases and set up. The evolution of gaming has become a real burden.
Really important “morals” you’ve got there. External launchers? Really? Almost like people just look for excuses to pirate and save money. At least be honest with yourself.
Then don’t give me excuses. Don’t be a scumbag. External launchers only exist to serve ads and DRM, they have no benefit to the consumer. I own hundreds of games, imagine if each one of them required a dedicated launcher!?
I never needed any moralistic reason to pirate.
Ripping off Jeff Bezos is a moral imperative.
Similarly, I have pirated The Sims 4 multiple times. Not because I plan on playing it any time soon, but rather because stealing from EA Games is always morally correct.
The Sims 4 is the only game my wife plays nowadays. You can bet we didn’t pay the hundreds of dollars it would cost to get all the DLC.
Why so specific…
Deny all parasites profit and engagement as much as possible where ever possible.
Who else owns as much content and causes so much harm?
Disney, Sony, comcast among other media conglomerates
Ripping off most of the big streaming services is a moral imperative. They are all corrupt and evil in one form or another. Except Dropout. If you pirate Dropout content you’re a dirtbag.
Dropping truth bombs here
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.
