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As a "sane" person from a civilized country, I don't have an online payment account. I couldn't transmit my money to spotify even if I wanted to. That being sa
by _ooqq 8y ago
As a "sane" person from a civilized country, I don't have an online payment account. I couldn't transmit my money to spotify even if I wanted to.
That being said, I also like owning my music. As files. On my own devices. Running "fair trade" operating systems that let me do that.
- cr1895 8y ago>I couldn't transmit my money to spotify even if I wanted to. You surely could. Go to a store and buy a Spotify gift card with cash.
- jackpeterfletch 8y agowat, like no credit/debit card of any kind?
- bildung 8y agoNot very common in e.g. many parts of Europe.
- Symbiote 8y agoWhich European country doesn't have debit cards?
- bildung 8y agoNote I didn't claim debit cards don't exist here, just that they are not very common, especially for online payments. I personally live in Germany, in the middle of my live, with kids and a big household etc. and have never used a credit card, nor have I undergone a single situation where I needed one.
- _ooqq 8y agoProbably none, but to be blunt, not everyone is willing to put their heads into such a noose. Anything banking involves a tradeoff of some sorts, eg. whether I'd like to have my data with or out of the next Equifax-like leak... Seriously, give me a reason to trust these things, because I rather manage with what I have instead, and so far with little trouble. With what I'd call the upside of me consuming as little as possible from the international money mobsters. I do need some hardware once in a while, and the options there really could be better.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI don't see what's "fair trade" about enjoying the fruits of others' labour for free.
- TomMarius 8y agoYou can pay for files. Just noone offers it.
- nybble41 8y agoIndeed—but the labour we're talking about here, the kind regulated by copyright, is the distribution of the files; and it's the labels and artists who are employing the force of the State to enjoy the fruits of that labour performed by others for free, having given up on charging a fair rate once and up front for the actual labour of producing the content in favor of a more lucrative, albeit less moral, business model. If you create something that can be copied endlessly at near-zero cost, and you don't want others enjoying it "for free", then you need to charge an appropriate price for the initial publication. You have every right to keep it to yourself, and to charge whatever price you deem fair in exchange for the service of revealing it to others, but once you've done that it's rightfully out of your hands.
- mar77i 8y agoInteresting writeup. Another aspect to the same thing is why I should pay for knowledge? It wants to be free, this way I don't need to commit self-torture wrt educational funding. I seriously doubt I could have paid for the expertise that made and is making my career much beyond food and rent at the time when I decided to base it on FLOSS...
- nf05papsjfVbc 8y agoIn some places, you can buy Google Play Store credit in shops. Perhaps you could pay with cash too (my preference). I suppose that could help if such an option exists around where you live.