I wanna listen to a particular song by an artist who has recently turned pretty nazi. As I generally use Spotify I now refuse to listen to his music in there, esp as it generates earnings. I kinda wanna pirate the music somehow…I’m not gonna as I’m not gonna down a song or two and then store it on my phone like it’s the year 2000. But short story is this me justifying piracy to myself.
Nearly everything is priced in dollars and I’m too fucking broke and Brazilian to pay the asking price most of the time.
You don’t have to justify it, really, but it does feel satisfying when you do.
Which song of his out of curiosity? Just use Soulseek. (nicotine+ on desktop or Seeker on Android)
Which Kanye song?
No, they said recently
Hmm I suppose I should amend. I have had this same dilemma with RKelly then MJ. I just can’t condone some artists.
Haha, fair
A system that allowed one to pirate corporate American made or distributed content while being able to give back directly to creators would be nice.
Nobody is stopping you from pirating
Many musicians are set up to accept cash
Go to their shows. Buy their merch. That’s where the creators get the most profit.
Ripping off Jeff Bezos is a moral imperative.
Dropping truth bombs here
Why so specific…
Deny all parasites profit and engagement as much as possible where ever possible.
Who else owns as much content and causes so much harm?
Disney, Sony, comcast among other media conglomerates
Similarly, I have pirated The Sims 4 multiple times. Not because I plan on playing it any time soon, but rather because stealing from EA Games is always morally correct.
Ripping off most of the big streaming services is a moral imperative. They are all corrupt and evil in one form or another. Except Dropout. If you pirate Dropout content you’re a dirtbag.
Downloading and listening can still indicate an indirect form of support. Up to the individual, but I lean towards this guy being as canceled as possible, recommend rerouting any efforts to listen to this towards searching for some new exciting music.
You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.
I’ve found navidrome, tempo, and beets to be a pretty solid combo for that. Jellyfin technically has support for music, but I was not impressed with any of the players or library management that had to go with it.
Yes I do this all the time for games
Disco Elysium is a great target for this
They tell us we don’t own the game, only a license to play the game that they can arbitrarily revoke.
If you are going to hold my right to play something I paid for hostage, you can bet I am going to reclaim what I lost if that access is taken away from me (this does not apply to you selfish assholes that hack games to cheat then get banned).
Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.
In fact, the fact that I’m actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.
I have this. Paid for these things through from cassette and VHS to cd/dvd then paying for streaming. I have paid over and over for some content. I hate subscriptions.
You have commitment issues with subscriptions.
I despise rent seeking behaviour.
we are not the same.
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See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.
Yup, if you use Denuvo for your games, you can fuck right off
I mean free is nice but I seed because fuck the system and upload stuff because it’s suppose to be available to all.
Pirating Andor bc Disney+ is on the BDS list. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen but I’d sooner drop it than violate the boycott, even if money was no object. As things stand, piracy is the only ethical way to watch it.
