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To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/726542

I have ~100 users downloaded ~1000 of my files in the last week alone. Music piracy is still alive and kicking. I encourage everyone to download and install SoulseekQT/Nicotine+/Seeker-Android and share whatever kind of music you have for everybody to download. Let's bring back music piracy!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here, while I do have the time to chase around pirated movies/games/software, I want my music to just be there with me without all the hassle.

Spotify's algorithm is just great!

[–] nicocool84 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spotify shareholders say thanks. The artists, not so much. Keep your spotify money to go to concerts or buy albums on bandcamp. Spotify is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Guess what, it's not only the small musicians who suffer, it's everyone who falls into the "small" category.

Speaking as an IT professional, who has worked at smaller agencies, where new technologies arise and make our work more efficient. Do you think our bosses let us enjoy the free time that we gained from these advancing technologies? They don't! Instead they put even more workload onto us, up to the point where we burn out even faster than before. It's huge difference wirking on one task for five days (bc of limitations) vs. working on 10 tasks during the same period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Spotify sucks, but the whole music industry has sucked like that for literally a hundred years - A very very few artists make bank, about 5% make a little, everyone else makes zero.

[–] nicocool84 2 points 1 year ago

Oh indeed, I dont't think it was better before. But technology should be about making things better, shouldn't it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Spotify probably is the only algorithm I use that just gives me stuff I would enjoy, other services try to push bs I don't want. While I use soulseek and buy from Bandcamp when possible I still use Spotify for discovery.