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- privacy@lemmy.ml
Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit. Altice, meanwhile, will receive anti-piracy information, including that related to a letter the RIAA previously sent to BitTorrent Inc., the owner of popular torrent client uTorrent.
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I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.
I used to be with “it”. Then they change what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” amd what’s “it” seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.
It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!
It still is, that problem lies with you and an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.
It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take. You just don’t personally like it.
It’s like people who only ever decide to listen to the radio while driving around. Dude, we’ve had the ability to play our CDs with cassette adapters, we’ve had the ability to play cassettes in our cars and things have gotten twice as better the day the IPod came and mass MP3 support through USB happened.
There is no excuse as to why no one can’t just plug in their media device or use Spotify or something. If you continue to listen to the radio, you have no stance to complain about the music.
While I agree, I’d like to object a little to this:
an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.
It’s extremely tedious to look for new music, since most algorithms seems to fixate on “oh you like this song? Here, let me suggest all the discography of the artist and these artists that are barely similar yet non or their songs sound like that one you liked” and radio stations only play what they get paid for.
If you like a specific genre it might be easier, but for someone who likes songs instead of genres or artists… It’s a fucking pain.
Many algorithms aren’t even doing that in good faith, instead substituting in their low-cost contract cover bands as often as they can.
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I do agree to some degree but the problem here is that you are relying too much on just “the algorithm” to serve you up new and interesting stuff. Whilst some times maybe it comes in clutch for the most part, like you say, it is trash.
You need to go out and put in a little bit of work listening to things in other places, following rabbit holes based common denominators or listening to DJ mixes / radio shows, hearing a song you like then going on a mission to find out what it was.
You say it is tedious but you have so many options these days to explore if you just put in a little effort. It used to be tedious as fuck buying a CD for £15 based on a cover or one song you heard on the radio only to find the majority of the music you hate and it was a waste of money!
Basically proving my point about it being tedious but trying to force some hopium into it.
Yeh I guess, if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.
There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.
Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.
It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take.
So much this. Claiming modern music is all bad or something has the same energy as
What are you suggesting? That music, as an art form, didn’t peak when I was 15-25?
Lies and propaganda!
This research aims to examine whether a preference for popular music of a specific era still exists and whether it still follows a
non-monotonicnon monolithic relationship with age.I went with a typo at first :/
It has the same energy as someone who says “modern gaming is bad!” because all they play is regurgitated EA sports slop and AAAA shooters like Call of Duty.
I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.
I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.
As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.
VPN is the rubber for the internet, use it.
Reclaim your agency, deny the corpo parasite profit.
Last I heard, torrents would leak your actual IP. Has that been fixed?
