drewdevault

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by drewdevault 3y ago
Abortion rights is big one.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Rather than address these points line-by-line, there is a bigger issue at play: a difference in understanding (or opinion?) over what the Overton window is. This is particularly evident in that you cite Europe as 9.3% of the world as releva
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I'm not sure the overton window applies too much to economic policy in the US at this point; it's essentially hardline liberal capitalism in the Democrats, and liberal captalism with a kleptocracic chaser in the Republican party.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Aye, center-right in terms of economics, more center (or even center-left) in terms of social policy. Pushing it to the right, consider Democrats on war and the military industrial complex. And, ultimately, I would say that the unifying pol
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by drewdevault 3y ago
There are no "moderate" nor "progressive" parties. There's just Democrats and Republicans, which in a global context are respectively center/center-right and right. In a US context, both terms are more likely t
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by drewdevault 3y ago
This is not consistent with the law.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
The GDPR does not allow for paying to opt-out.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
It's also very much illegal. First, there's no way to actually opt-out of tracking, which is a complete disregard of GDPR basics, since almost all tracking options, including highly invasive options, are marked as mandatory. Secon
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by drewdevault 3y ago
It's also factually incorrect to suppose that this person owns the Nitter project, too. There's no CLA so the copyright is held in common by all of the contributors. Free software projects don't have owners, they have maintai
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by drewdevault 3y ago
An open source license, by definition, entitles the recipient to commercial use. https://xkcd.com/1731/
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by drewdevault 3y ago
You do not need to give anyone special permission to sell your contribution, everyone in the world is equally entitled to make commercial use of (including outright sale of) free and open source software; without this it is not free or open
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I took one for the team and authorized access for long enough to read the darn thing, and yes, it expects effectively full copyright assignment and leaves the door wide open for a rug pull.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Consider discarding the CLA if you anticipate third-party contributions. If you need to verify provenance, the Developer Certificate of Origin is a better approach. Otherwise, this (correctly) reads as a project which intends to take advant
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by drewdevault 3y ago
You should learn C because everything around you is based on C, most of it open source, and the ability to read and study the massive amount of C code that everything else relies on is a smart bet for understanding computers in a broader se
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by drewdevault 3y ago
> People are saying about 70% of Spotify revenue goes to rights holders, whereas you're saying about 85% of Bandcamp's revenue goes to rights holders. It really doesn't seem like that much of a difference? 85% of a bigger
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I didn't actually make that argument, though. I said that a user who circumvents ads on Spotify and buys albums from Bandcamp is more profitable for the artist than someone who just listens to Spotify ads, and I believe that this is fa
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by drewdevault 3y ago
This is perhaps true (but I'm not sure it is), but consider the context of this thread: we're specifically making arguments to an audience of people who care about artists being paid.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
You and I did the same back-of-the-napkin math and arrived at slightly different numbers; I used a 5 minute average song duration and $0.003 average payout. See my other comments for elaboration on why the Bandcamp model is ultimately bette
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Live shows are generally the largest source of revenue for musicians.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Copying is not theft , it is materially different. Moreover, I have proposed ways of engaging with music which makes substantially more money for artists. I am not the one being dishonest here.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Bandcamp is available in more markets than Spotify. Not sure how that's relevant to my argument, though.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I would not recommend a different revenue split, I would recommend a different business model. And I did!
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by drewdevault 3y ago
>How exactly do you do this By reading the rest of my comment. >What a dishonest comment to support stealing. Copying is not theft.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I've spent thousands of dollars on Bandcamp over the past several years, attended many live shows, bought merchandise, etc. Suggesting that one is "pretending" to do these things when making this argument is a hell of a straw
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by drewdevault 3y ago
This software is not trying to solve the problem of getting artists paid, and the suggestion that people should listen to Spotify ads and all is not really going to solve that problem, either.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I'm not making that argument. I made an argument that you have better options in which the artist is paid more .
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Maybe, maybe not. If an artist makes up 1% of your listening, that goes down to a dollar, and if you factor in more realistic listening habits that goes down further. Consider that this is paid to the rights holder, not the artist, as well
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this. If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
hg.sr.ht would not exist if not for being community maintained; the cost/benefit ratio does not work out in its favor were we to maintain it internally. The deal is that we provide infrastructure and operations but that the software it
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by drewdevault 3y ago
hg.sr.ht is operated by SourceHut, but the software is maintained by the community. Ludovic is the primary maintainer and various other Mercurial users participate in its development.

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