Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Stealing from the artists? But that is already Spotifys job.

This thread is unnecessary bullying. If you don't like his take, then downvote him and move on with your life. Posting his username and comment in another community/instance is just poor taste and makes you seem a bit like a crybaby.

just to be sure - are you referring to the musicians as millionaires or do you mean the streaming service ceos? just wanted to check because i know a few musicians and none of them are millionaires, seems like they are doing something wrong... 😐

As someone who's bough several albums on bandcamp, I'm pretty sure I've given more money to actual artists than the average spoify user ever has through their subscription.

Imagine feeling good because you pay for spotify. If you want your favorite artists to have money buy tickets and merch.

Y'all get so pissy when people judge you for stealing content. Then you start attacking this user? Even putting up your own post to bully them?

Definitely the behavior of adults and not 14 year olds.

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

Most artists are not millionaires.

I'm sure Spotify is paying the artists very fairly and totally not robbing them of their labour.

If I play one song, from one artist, once a day, for a year, the artist earns about $2 from me. BFD lol

It is important to know that artists make close to nothing on Spotify. By pirating Spotify you hurt big tech (and even not really, it’s not like they have a finite amount of money) and not the artists. Sending an artist $5 on Ko-Fi to an artist you enjoy will absolve you of all your music piracy sins for the rest of your life.

Spotify replacing songs in my library without warning basically radicalized me to start using modded apps and buy my favorite artists on bandcamp

Ah yes all those millionaire artists. Poor rich artists. Everyone knows all artists are rich. Right?

Did you.. read the comment? It wasn't about the streaming platform owners.

I'll typically buy albums from artists that I'm pretty certain aren't mega wealthy, and actually I've just been paying less attention to the ones who are. If I check them out on YouTube and they have a Vevo logo on the vid that's a easy way to know they don't need my money at all.

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.

The Spotify CEO is a warmonger, so fuck that guy and his company anyway.

People bragging about modded Spotify always confuse me when there are plenty of better open source options utilising YouTube Music.

you're taking pride in bootlegging content?

Why are people such massive dorks now when it comes to piracy, fuck off

It's super-complicated to figure out how much revenue each stream earns musicians, but unless they're already one of the biggest names in music, it ain't much. Which means that, either way, pirating the music isn't harming them to any significant degree, unless everyone was pirating their music, and no one was attending their live performances.

I support gaming piracy from big studios, I support movie piracy from big studios, Spotify and YouTube are just the middleman for smaller content creators. You're just stealing from creators at some point. Why is that a point of pride?

Imagine being convinced that giving away what little money you have to a huge corporation was "right".

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.

I'll tell you right now most the bands I listen to aren't fucking millionaires