Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
does it matter as long as yt-dlp is maintained?
The lost joy of music piracy
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Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#22Any 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.
Hey now, that’s a bit of a harsh way to talk about record labels. Sure most of the money you pay goes to the top performers, no matter what you actually listen to, but that doesn’t make them parasites. Executives have to eat too.
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#23Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
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Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#24Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
Posting that here is one of the more promising ways of achieving that
That's such small potatoes. Anyone putting out an album on Bandcamp is probably thrilled that someone would want to pirate it.
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#25Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
If you're on Bandcamp or Soundcloud it's usually because you want to support artists directly, I doubt many people are purely interested in getting free music rips.
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#26I 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.
I refuse to believe there's not a database backup somewhere. Such careful curators would surely hate to destroy it!
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#27Any 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.
Funny because that is exactly how capitalism works.
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#28Music piracy is alive and well if you know where to look. Some places has been mentioned in this thread already. Of course there is no replacing the magic of early 2000-2010's p2p sites like OiNK, What and Waffles - but well curated sites still exist.
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#29I'm so incredibly happy police resources are being used to "protect" the rest of us from... harm...?
Re: The lost joy of music piracy
#30What a cool article. I have good memories of being 13 and my cousin telling me about limewire. Between random pornography titles there was an artist called burial, which I downloaded cause I thought it sounded edgy. How lucky was I!