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Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene (animecorner.me)
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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I've not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.

Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Music piracy isn't rampant at all. It's the "immigrant crime is out of control" of the internet.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hell I still sometimes find those old "lyrics" videos. Remember those? They all had that bluish teal background? Some of them survive to this day.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    They're still around for most big songs, old and new.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, there was a particular format of them, I think they were made in Youtube's old built-in editor, there's a distinctive style that is extremely 2007.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Hell, most of the major labels post tracks themselves to sponge up that sweet ad revenue. You can just use the tool of your choice to download the audio straight out of it if you decide you want to keep it for later.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.

    Hell I'm a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I've given up.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Never heard of foobar, and honestly surprised it doesn't have a linux version. It has a windows phone version, but NOT linux.

    I know I shit on linux a lot on this site for having a small userbase, but COME ON!!! You make a windows phone version but NOT a linux version??? At least linux has something like 5% of the pc market userbase. And while that may be mockingly small, windows phone probably only ever had 5 users total!

    You know it's bad when I'M the one insulting a program for not having a native linux port.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well, Foobar is ancient software and barely has any developers. It’s intended to be a WinAmp clone. I’m sure there’s an equivalent piece of Linux software that does something similar.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Music piracy is just so much harder than streaming.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yup. With shows and movies it's the other way around. Netflix was already losing a lot of the third party content I liked and then they pulled the whole "have to live in the same house" thing. Instant cancel.

    I do have Apple TV+ nowadays, but only because I have the Apple One package that gives you Music, TV+, Arcade and storage space for a bit more than any of the services separately. TV+ is also nearly all originals and there are a lot of good ones. They have much less content, but much better quality to garbage ratio. I've watched some shows 3 times over. Not a service I'd likely pay for separately, but the bundle deal is just an excellent value proposition for me.

    Everything else I torrent. Indiscriminately. Hollywood blockbuster? Torrent. Estonian movie? If I missed it in the cinemas, torrent.

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