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The Pirate Bay (https://thepiratebay.org/index.html https://thepiratebay.org/index.html) is one of the best cloud music providers, they've been around for two d
by mmh0000 4y ago
The Pirate Bay (https://thepiratebay.org/index.html https://thepiratebay.org/index.html) is one of the best cloud music providers, they've been around for two decades and have never deleted anything. Depending on your genre preferences they might not have everything you want, in which case there are some other competing cloud providers[0] that specialize in specific genres:
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/music/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/music/
- daxelrod 4y agoThe Pirate Bay may never have deleted anything, but they also don't host any of the music. Just because a torrent exists doesn't mean anyone is seeding it.
- bmitc 4y agoYou might as well say no, because that’s not a cloud provider. I’m not sure stealing is the right solution. Most artists struggle to make ends meet and have little control over their own music rights.
- skyyler 4y agoAlbum sales haven't been how musicians have made money for over a decade now. It's cute that you care, but money is a lot better spent on merchandise from the band's store than on records if you're trying to financially support the artist.
- bmitc 4y agoSo you’re entitled to music for free because you buy merchandise?
- mirkules 4y agoWhat deterred me from becoming a professional musician was this (paraphrased) quote: “Your job is not to sell music. Your job is to sell merchandise, and your music is just advertising for your merchandise.” If I were to rationalize it, I would say “stealing music” is essentially “stealing advertising”. (By the way, I don’t think you should be downvoted so much. I believe in good-faith discussion, even if I disagree)
- skyyler 4y agoYou know what, sure! If you feel better than me because you gave some record label execs money to listen to that music then by all means, feel better than me. I'll buy a vinyl from the merch booth, maybe. But I have no reason to purchase digital content. And I certainly don't feel bad about entertainment piracy. I play music. I don't care if people copy my music and share it. Every musician I personally know feels the same.
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- jazzyjackson 4y agoi'm entitled to music for free because it's asinine to threaten me with fines and arrest for redistributing information (it's called sharing and where i'm from they teach it in kindergarten)
- pjc50 4y agoIf you use a cloud service, then playing ""your"" music from it is going to incur license fees. Or get deleted if they don't want to take your money in that country. If you want a cloud service that keeps your CDs and doesn't fiddle with them it'll have to be an encrypted S3 bucket.
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- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoCopyright infringement isn't stealing. My perspective on this was formed when I sold a chemistry program I wrote on a TI-85 to another student in 1997. It felt ridiculous to charge a lot for something I still had after selling it so I charged $1. Inadvertently beating Apple to the $1 mobile app market by 8 years, but I digress...
- maerF0x0 4y ago> It felt ridiculous to charge a lot for something I still had after selling Access to a physical item isn't the only reason we need something like copy right. We also need it to successfully amortize the creation cost of things across many buyers, else you'd have to sell copy for the full creation cost else it'd become a first mover disadvantage.
- Minor49er 4y agoSoulseek beats TPB in terms of variety and has been around for far longer