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All streaming services are predatory scum. Piracy is the way, even though it is sometimes less convenient. I pay for Spotify because it is cheap and I'm lazy I
by surgical_fire 8mo ago
All streaming services are predatory scum. Piracy is the way, even though it is sometimes less convenient. I pay for Spotify because it is cheap and I'm lazy
If you want to support musicians buy their merch, go to concerts. If they are smalltime, find their patreon, or join their YouTube thing, or buy their music on Bandcamp, etc.
- okr 8mo agoPiracy is also predatory, just saying.
- surgical_fire 8mo agoWhich is why I included the second paragraph.
- subscribed 8mo agoIt isn't when it's paid off in advance in a form of the predatory tax, also on people and items anywhere close to "piracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy If someone lives in one of the countries where this tax is being levied, they're not "pirating", they're merely exercising their prepaid privilege.