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Ever heard of Apple Music? Spotify? Youtube?

NoahTheDuke 7y ago
Laughable to compare the obsessive curation of music on what.cd with any of those platforms, not to mention the fidelity and the vast range, far exceeding what’s available on the other platforms.
- rowathray 7y ago
  If your "music discovery plummeted" after an illegal copyright infringer was taken down a decade ago, I seriously question your commitment to music. In the years that went by since what.cd, you never found new ways to discover music? Oh kay. More like you just liked stealing from creative professionals.
  - pirateyarr 7y ago
    >you never found new ways to discover music? Yes. But they are nowhere close to the ways you could discover with it. Spotify's playlists doesn't even compare. >Oh kay. More like you just liked stealing from creative professionals. Ofc. In fact, there are studies that show that piracy helps the industry. And I bet the biggest winners are the creators themselves, as they are the ones that profit the most from exposure. Musicians get more more from concerts than albuns sales.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
  @rowathray It's not so much because of the pirating that this service was successful, it's because of the dedicated userbase it held. If something like what.cd integrated with something like Spotify- a legitimate way of accessing lots of music- say "here's a button to stream" somewhere on the site, it would probably be successful. Mind you, one of the other reasons that these sorts of things with torrent or whatever backends get so popular is because there isn't a particular gatekeeper that can decide what can and can't be on the platform [1.] Destroying and damaging the effort of people who help your platform on their spare time tends to garner ill will. [1] Spotify removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from their service: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455549/new-spotify-hate-content-policy-music-business-reaction https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455549/new-spot...
  - rowathray 7y ago
    Wait, so you endorsing a site that not only engaged in large scale piracy, but also allowed hateful content with no oversight? Wow.
  - Carpetsmoker 7y ago
    I would pay for what.cd. In fact, I did pay. I think I donated about €200 at some point. The entire experience of what.cd was just amazing, and services like Spotify are lacking a lot. The situation is better than a few years ago, but still very far from perfect.

Laughable to compare the obsessive curation of music on what.cd with any of those platforms, not to mention the fidelity and the vast range, far exceeding what’s available on the other platforms.

rowathray 7y ago
If your "music discovery plummeted" after an illegal copyright infringer was taken down a decade ago, I seriously question your commitment to music. In the years that went by since what.cd, you never found new ways to discover music? Oh kay. More like you just liked stealing from creative professionals.
- pirateyarr 7y ago
  >you never found new ways to discover music? Yes. But they are nowhere close to the ways you could discover with it. Spotify's playlists doesn't even compare. >Oh kay. More like you just liked stealing from creative professionals. Ofc. In fact, there are studies that show that piracy helps the industry. And I bet the biggest winners are the creators themselves, as they are the ones that profit the most from exposure. Musicians get more more from concerts than albuns sales.
HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
@rowathray It's not so much because of the pirating that this service was successful, it's because of the dedicated userbase it held. If something like what.cd integrated with something like Spotify- a legitimate way of accessing lots of music- say "here's a button to stream" somewhere on the site, it would probably be successful. Mind you, one of the other reasons that these sorts of things with torrent or whatever backends get so popular is because there isn't a particular gatekeeper that can decide what can and can't be on the platform [1.] Destroying and damaging the effort of people who help your platform on their spare time tends to garner ill will. [1] Spotify removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from their service: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455549/new-spotify-hate-content-policy-music-business-reaction https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455549/new-spot...
- rowathray 7y ago
  Wait, so you endorsing a site that not only engaged in large scale piracy, but also allowed hateful content with no oversight? Wow.
- Carpetsmoker 7y ago
  I would pay for what.cd. In fact, I did pay. I think I donated about €200 at some point. The entire experience of what.cd was just amazing, and services like Spotify are lacking a lot. The situation is better than a few years ago, but still very far from perfect.