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.
My wife refuses to let me pirate books for her. She wants to support the authors she reads, which is fair. But she decided she wanted to try the Harry Potter books, and asked me to pirate them for her to make sure JK Rowling didn’t get a penny out of her.
Now that’s a keeper
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Yeah, sure sucks when people go out of their way to bend their personal code of supporting creatives they enjoy to ensure they don’t contribute money to a hateful bigot who actively makes things worse for vulnerable minorities. Yeah, that sure is motivated by external approval of internet strangers.
Ripping off Jeff Bezos is a moral imperative.
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.
I would rather own my files on my phone like it’s the year 2000 than my devices becoming useless whenever $streaming_service shuts down or changes policy like it’s the year 1984…
I agree with this. But also, it’s hard to beat the convenience of music streaming. It’s getting more expensive, which is sad, but for awhile there it worked great. Almost any artist or music you wanted, just, available.
Personally between downloading music from youtube with yt-dlp and bandcamp I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
Honestly, after seeing billionaires buy the US gov and then learning that Spotify is owned by a billionaire and artists are terribly compensated, I have been planning to once again fly the pirate flag. I want to pay the artists, but fuck the current options unless there is a different way idk about.
I moved to Qobuz for that reason. Much better payout for the artists.
Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.
If he has turned Nazi then I probably wouldn’t bother to listen to them anymore.
Yeah. I refuse to give cuts to amazon, spotify, netflix etc.
If I pirate something from a not super rich artist and I really enjoy it. I’ll send them an email and propose to transfer them some money to support them. I don’t want spotify or amazon or google taking a cut.
Which Kanye song?
No, they said recently
Haha, fair
Hmm I suppose I should amend. I have had this same dilemma with RKelly then MJ. I just can’t condone some artists.
Honestly there’s so much wonderful art out there not created by Nazis, I don’t know that it’s worth the energy to pirate Nazi music.
I totally understand the moral pirate argument, I just don’t have time to enjoy all of the games, movies, and music from artists I support. To waste what time I have engaging with content from people I find morally repugnant is just not where I’m investing
Yeah I pirate all the games that:
- Require an internet connection
- Use Denuvo
- Require a dedicated launcher
- Require a connected account
If you’re going to make the paid experience significantly worse than the free one because you want to implement anti-consumer BS, go fuck yourself
Yeh I am not a gamer but have a family of them. As the tech person I’m usually the one dealing with purchases and set up. The evolution of gaming has become a real burden.
Really important “morals” you’ve got there. External launchers? Really? Almost like people just look for excuses to pirate and save money. At least be honest with yourself.
Then don’t give me excuses. Don’t be a scumbag. External launchers only exist to serve ads and DRM, they have no benefit to the consumer. I own hundreds of games, imagine if each one of them required a dedicated launcher!?
If it can’t own my media, I’m certainly not going to pay for it.
