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

submitted 2 years ago by chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Support your favourite artists directly. That wasn’t an option in the Napster days.

[-] Sentinian@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Bandcamp is an excellent option, I often try to get releases from their when possible.

[-] chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

I do when I can afford to, but you can't really buy every song you listen to, can you?

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Have you heard about Spotify?

[-] chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Spotify doesn't do shit for the artists.

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

More than pirating

[-] chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm sure artists enjoy their 0.003 cents per stream a lot.

[-] Noxvento@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

More than 0.000 cents. ;-)

[-] Emerald_Earth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

With Spotify, both you and artists are still screwed.

If you have Spotify free you will be interrupted by ads breaking all immersion in your albums. Artists will get paid barely anything.

If you have Spotify Premium, you will have to pay money, and most of that money won't even go towards the artists. The artists will get paid a little more then barely anything.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I absolutely do where I can but when a lot of stuff gets released within the scene I am into on a dead inferior format (vinyl) exclusively then I am absolutely going to pirate that shit if I can.