whatever will the millionaires do????
Have friend. Is artist. Headline act in front of +40K. Goes all over world doing festivals and stuff. Steals music. Encourages me to steal music. Laughs when I steal his music
If I play one song, from one artist, once a day, for a year, the artist earns about $2 from me. BFD lol
it gets more interesting if you calculate how much of the percentage of a user's subscription goes to spotify, how much goes to labels and how much ends up in the artists themselves.
Spotify replacing songs in my library without warning basically radicalized me to start using modded apps and buy my favorite artists on bandcamp
I'm moving back to buy physical media... But it's sad that isn't feasible to buy the entire library that I have on platforms. That would be an whole life effort decades ago, now it's even harder since the availability for physical media decrease so much.
you're taking pride in bootlegging content?
Why are people such massive dorks now when it comes to piracy, fuck off
I could try being the devil's advocate and argue a point or two, but I won't because I'd be overall a worse person without piracy lol
You know, as much as I'm fine with setting sail to find video content that's hidden behind streaming subscriptions, I'm actually ok with paying £15 a month for Apple Music / Spotify, et al...
I mean, I'd say there's 99% similarity between the libraries of the big two streamers, so it's not like you have to sub to both to get all the music you want. I can listen to the same hardcore bands across most of them, and that's fine. The problem I have is that there's a bunch of shows on Netflix, another bunch on D+, more on Prime, and so on, and so on. So we're made to feel that, in order to keep up with cultural discourse, we have to spend out £70+ a month on half a dozen different services.
And nah, fuck that.
All that said, I do download some music, because I want FLACs to convert to 320 aac so I can load on to the iPod I like to use.
I do want to move away from Spotify since they randomly drop previously available songs from time to time, but I have some 500 songs in a playlist. Is there a way to easily RIP all of it in good quality? spotify-dl is simply insufficient in terms of quality and accuracy. Has anyone used zotify? Does it work? I might get a second account and try, if anyone can tell me if it worked for them.
utorrent
piratebay
There are a million good programs and services out there, why use the ones that are completely shit in every way
Can't seem to find the modded spotify that gives you paid features
Pretty much just want 320kbps streaming, ad free, and playback syncing between all my devices
I download as much as the next person but is it not more about the artists team getting paid?
Implying Spotify pays artists a fair fee.
Fuck, and I cannot emphasize this enough, them
But not the tech kind of nerd, probably a nerd in stamp collecting or entomology
I've pirated content and don't have any issues with it. What has worn me out
- Sites being pirated don't give a shit that pirates aren't going to use them anymore. That's literally why they blocked them.
- Want to consume content without paying? Do it and maybe share with others how you did it, but don't make the millionth post bragging about how you're sticking it to the man. Go rob a Tiffany's and brag about sticking it to that company. And when they install new security measures, post about how unfair it is and you'll never take stuff from them again. Or don't. Really. Don't. I want to see that post about as much as the post about what you had for breakfast this morning.
Unless it's something particularly tasty, then I probably want to see that post more.
I always wonder why lots of the people I interact IRL with seem a bit off. This post reminded me of the exact reason
They go to sites like Reddit, don't realize it's half-CIA, then come out talking like sleepy CIA test subjects bc that's how ""public discourse" sounds now
for leaving reddit pedantry behind.
