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Reminds me of the System of a Down - Legend of Zelda song that was popular around Limewire, etc Years later it was uncovered that it was never System of a Down, but one Joe Pleiman https://kotaku.com/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zelda-...
I would not be surprised if all of this content has now found its way into some music generation AI.
I'm so incredibly happy police resources are being used to "protect" the rest of us from... harm...?
Police exists to enforce the policy set by legislations. Legislations define rules to protect "us" from harm, but police is for policing only. They do not protect people. They protect the law.
As far as I'm aware, the Pirate Bay raid essentially only happened because the US threatened Sweden with trade repercussions. Like, thanks, guys? Way to show you have superior ethics to the pirates
I'm so incredibly happy police resources are being used to "protect" the rest of us from... harm...?
One thing I miss about the iPod era is that Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music. It doesn't take much look at how much music an iPod could store, how much music cost, and how much people had in disposable income to spend on music to realize that music had to come from other means. The iPod and P2P file sharing were incredibly synergistic in a way that makes me giggle. The iTunes store is just…
If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”
Reminds me of the System of a Down - Legend of Zelda song that was popular around Limewire, etc Years later it was uncovered that it was never System of a Down, but one Joe Pleiman https://kotaku.com/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zelda-...
A lot of my peers were adamant that nirvanas song is „smeells like team spirit“ because this is how pirated mp3 on local DC (i think it was called that) p2p exchange was called
I loved that place, being able to browse people's hard drives was ingenious.
Any amount of joy you lost is a fraction of joy lost from people blatantly stealing the fruits of other people's's labor. Communities do not have to be parasites to exist. Similar amounts of joy could be created over a different interest that didn't require stealing and hurting others.
The article touches on the topic and mentions Nine Inch Nails' and Radiohead's 'free' album releases. There's also the possibility/likelihood (I can't recall the results of the research) that increasing exposure, via piracy, is actually better for the artist long term. And then, as others have already responded, the worst offenders are, generally, the industry insiders themselves. Reports of the death of music are gr…
If breaking someone's kneecaps extended their life by 20 years I wouldn't want someone to randomly break my kneecaps and feel good about it because they "did me a favor."
>I pirated plenty as a kid with no money
Neither age nor wealth exempts someone's stealing from being a crime. In fact I see it as worse crime as it sets a bad example that may be hard to change later.
I can't believe the operators of what.cd would choose to delete everything without at least a warning, or letting people back it up. So much music and metadata just lost! Not to mention the crime of law enforcement prioritising private profit over a cultural milestone. It really is like they burned the library of Alexandria because it hadn't paid the copyright fee.