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> Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Legal music streaming is good enough for me. Seems a much more convenient and l

by thih9 5y ago

> Copyright holders will never be able to compete with piracy. It's impossible. Legal music streaming is good enough for me. Seems a much more convenient and less fragmented ecosystem; I wish movie streaming was like that.

bayindirh 5y ago
The only problem is "license expire" between the labels and the streamers. My absolute favorite song suffered from this. One morning I opened Spotify, and all the songs in that album was greyed out. It returned a couple of months later, but it's an enough of a warning.
- Sander_Marechal 5y ago
  I would love to see compulsory licensing schemes for audio and video streaming like they have for radio broadcasts. Maybe allow 1 or 2 years of exclusivity, but anything else is fair game to stream by anyone as long as they pay the license fee.
  - sneak 5y ago
    We don't need compulsory licensing; we already have piracy. Everything is already available, forever, for free, without DRM.
    - sdoering 5y ago
      Some people would love to compensate the original creator. And some people would be willing to pay to be able to easily consume content legally. The problem is that the current state of affairs is fragmented and not set up in a way that ensures that I as a consumer can be sure that I can consume said content again tomorrow. I pay for access but am not ensured that the content I like is going to be available. That makes piracy an option for some.
      - bayindirh 5y ago
        The best thing is iTunes store IMHO. I start to listen an album via Spotify. I buy it via iTunes if I continue to listen it. If I really like that album that much, I find a lossless copy. If I can buy a lossless copy from the original artist, I go that route first. RadioHead's leading the pack on that. I have a 24bit wav album from them.
        mrja 5y ago
        this would be nice if artists which one can relate to had any correlation to how, and, more importantly when, society affords them their existence.

by thih9 5y ago

bayindirh 5y ago

The only problem is "license expire" between the labels and the streamers. My absolute favorite song suffered from this. One morning I opened Spotify, and all the songs in that album was greyed out. It returned a couple of months later, but it's an enough of a warning.

Sander_Marechal 5y ago
I would love to see compulsory licensing schemes for audio and video streaming like they have for radio broadcasts. Maybe allow 1 or 2 years of exclusivity, but anything else is fair game to stream by anyone as long as they pay the license fee.
- sneak 5y ago
  We don't need compulsory licensing; we already have piracy. Everything is already available, forever, for free, without DRM.
  - sdoering 5y ago
    Some people would love to compensate the original creator. And some people would be willing to pay to be able to easily consume content legally. The problem is that the current state of affairs is fragmented and not set up in a way that ensures that I as a consumer can be sure that I can consume said content again tomorrow. I pay for access but am not ensured that the content I like is going to be available. That makes piracy an option for some.
    - bayindirh 5y ago
      The best thing is iTunes store IMHO. I start to listen an album via Spotify. I buy it via iTunes if I continue to listen it. If I really like that album that much, I find a lossless copy. If I can buy a lossless copy from the original artist, I go that route first. RadioHead's leading the pack on that. I have a 24bit wav album from them.
      - mrja 5y ago
        this would be nice if artists which one can relate to had any correlation to how, and, more importantly when, society affords them their existence.