• Darren@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn’t fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don’t get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don’t have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.

    We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.

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      4 days ago

      I found the easiest way to pirate music was to just grab stuff from youtube. Maybe in the future Freetube will have an option to download whole playlists, but in my middle age I am way less likely to download the whole album for “context.”

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      Music piracy’s still alive here and there. The torrents I usually find are massive FLAC files that have very little advantage over much smaller MP3s though. I might need to buy some really fancy gear to appreciate it maybe.

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        5 days ago

        Music piracy basically amounts to not using sponsored AI playlists
        Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
        that’s what music piracy has become today !