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  • Back during the Napster days, Howard Stern had the Foo Fighters on. He asked them what their thought of the whole Napster vs. Metallica legal debate.

    Dave Grohl told him he was 100 percent for Napster, explaining that they barely made a dime from record sales, and instead made the bulk of their money from touring and t-shirt sales. And that very few musicians were in the same boat as Metallica, actually making money from their album sales.

    So from that point of view, the more people who were exposed to their music meant the more folks who might want to go see them in concert.






  • I enjoy that they’re focusing on ‘promoting pirated software and game cheats’ before talking about malware first.

    Cybersecurity ethusiast Karol Paciorek who spotted the playlist said, “cybercriminals exploit Spotify for malware distribution. Why? Spotify has a strong reputation and its pages are easily indexed by search engines, making it an effective platform to promote malicious links.”

    That’s a very different, more helpful story. “Watch out, Spotify links are being used to distribute malware to your computer.”

    When abusing platforms, spammers and scammers leave no stone unturned to promote their agenda.

    Money. They aren’t doing this as part of a ‘peons of the world unite to steal software’ scheme. They’re doing it to generate traffic so they make more ad revenue.


  • “Frankly I was a little bit disappointed in 1986 when we moved from a six-day week to a five-day week,” he added.

    “I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you’re the most intelligent guy."

    Funny how the out of touch billionaires keep pushing this line of thinking. The guy is on record saying he doesn’t believe in work / life balance and is currently pushing for a 70 hour work week in India.





  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.worldThe Enshitification of CVS
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    16 days ago

    They’re just also just borderline disgusting now. All of the ones around me have the same shitty old grey carpet. They aren’t clean. Most of the aisles look like warzones. What little staff is there have that ‘please help me’ deer in the headlights look.

    And don’t get me started on having to wait an extra 5 minutes to leave because the 75-year-old grandma has absolutely no idea how to use the self checkout.