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How can people defend what this app is doing? Not only are you infringing on copyright, which like... Fine, I get it, and I do it. I don't get all self-righteo
by kspacewalk2 2y ago
How can people defend what this app is doing?
Not only are you infringing on copyright, which like... Fine, I get it, and I do it. I don't get all self-righteous about somehow having the "right" to do so, and accept when a method of doing it is taken offline, but I can't be hypocritical and criticize the practice itself.
But you piggy-back off someone else's service, block their ads and run your own instead, making $100 million?? They incur all the costs (licencing, hosting), and you collect all the revenue?
Please, someone, rationally defend this business model, because nothing other than "grift" comes to mind.
- kome 2y ago> They incur all the costs (licencing, hosting), and you collect all the revenue? So many capitalist activities work in exactly the same way: socializing the costs while privatizing the benefits. If anything, the Musi app is one of the more harmless examples of this.
- kspacewalk2 2y agoCan you give some concrete examples to better illustrate your point?
- kome 2y ago- oil companies pollute like crazy, but we pay for cleanup, health issues, and environmental damage. they pocket the profits. - tons of public research (medicine, tech, etc.) gets privatized. taxpayers fund it, but companies patent the results and rake it in. - 2008 financial crisis: banks made reckless bets, tanked the economy, got bailed out with public money. profits stayed private. - gig economy: workers rely on public benefits (like food stamps or medicaid) because wages suck, but the companies make billions. - resource extraction: companies lease public land super cheap, destroy it, and leave taxpayers to deal with the mess.