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This has not been my 99% experience. I'm sure one or two of those stories are handy to have to justify a lifetime of unnecessary theft, but the bottom line for

This has not been my 99% experience. I'm sure one or two of those stories are handy to have to justify a lifetime of unnecessary theft, but the bottom line for me is that I don't mind playing by their system on principle. This is how the artists asked us to do it, by selling their rights to distributors. Similarly with Spotify. I'd love to pay more to artists, I do go buy songs when I love them, and I'm happy to pay for a family Spotify account because Spotify has brought an amazing amount of positive to our house. Bottom line I'm actually willing to endure a small amount of inconvenience in 1% so that my happy path still supports artists and yes industries that have brought so much good to me.

chx 3y ago
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- jvanderbot 3y ago
  You can feel free to use any legitimate platform you like. I was arguing against piracy not arguing for exclusively Spotify.
- madmask 3y ago
  Not everything needs to be an activist fight, should I not pay taxes because a party I don’t like is in power? I think we should all be a bit more open to voices we don’t like. Live and let live, etc.
  - beej71 3y ago
    There are a lot of voices I find worse, and I support them all being free of government persecution. But I'm not paying their platforms--that's _my_ voice.
  - jokethrowaway 3y ago
    You pay taxes because otherwise goons with guns will come and lock you in jail with criminal and child rapists. He can very well decide to not support a private company, that's the whole idea behind having a free market and not living in a socialist hell hole.
- jvanderbot 3y ago
  Taking revenue from all artists you like because you dislike one artist is madness.
- jwells89 3y ago
  I would say that the problem is larger than that, with how Spotify worked to close up and monetize a historically free and open medium (podcasts) and aggressively pushed their new business to users who were only interested in music. The way they deprecated libspotify while promising a fully capable replacement only to never live up to those promises (current APIs/SDKs are incapable of playback) to strip paying users of clients that aren't official also sucks.
- Levitz 3y ago
  I think there is no way you are being honest with yourself. there are a truckload of entities that do far more and more objective evil than Joe Rogan and being serious about this issue requires prioritizing attention in such a way that paying any to Joe Rogan is madness, especially when it's not even boycotting Joe Rogan himself but a whole different company that has thousands of contracts just because this one specific guy Do you even boycott other companies that also platform him (and way worse!) like Youtube, Twitter, Reddit?

chx 3y ago

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jvanderbot 3y ago
You can feel free to use any legitimate platform you like. I was arguing against piracy not arguing for exclusively Spotify.
madmask 3y ago
Not everything needs to be an activist fight, should I not pay taxes because a party I don’t like is in power? I think we should all be a bit more open to voices we don’t like. Live and let live, etc.
- beej71 3y ago
  There are a lot of voices I find worse, and I support them all being free of government persecution. But I'm not paying their platforms--that's _my_ voice.
- jokethrowaway 3y ago
  You pay taxes because otherwise goons with guns will come and lock you in jail with criminal and child rapists. He can very well decide to not support a private company, that's the whole idea behind having a free market and not living in a socialist hell hole.
jvanderbot 3y ago
Taking revenue from all artists you like because you dislike one artist is madness.
jwells89 3y ago
I would say that the problem is larger than that, with how Spotify worked to close up and monetize a historically free and open medium (podcasts) and aggressively pushed their new business to users who were only interested in music. The way they deprecated libspotify while promising a fully capable replacement only to never live up to those promises (current APIs/SDKs are incapable of playback) to strip paying users of clients that aren't official also sucks.
Levitz 3y ago
I think there is no way you are being honest with yourself. there are a truckload of entities that do far more and more objective evil than Joe Rogan and being serious about this issue requires prioritizing attention in such a way that paying any to Joe Rogan is madness, especially when it's not even boycotting Joe Rogan himself but a whole different company that has thousands of contracts just because this one specific guy Do you even boycott other companies that also platform him (and way worse!) like Youtube, Twitter, Reddit?