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.
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.
Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.
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
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
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
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.
Doing this is not only moral; it’s virtuous.
I never needed any moralistic reason to pirate.
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.
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.
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.
Bandcamp.
If there is an indie game that I like I will buy it
I am the High Priest of Kopimism. Download from where you want, and go in peace my child.
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
Nearly everything is priced in dollars and I’m too fucking broke and Brazilian to pay the asking price most of the time.
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
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.
Also rootkit anti cheat.
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!?
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.
