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
Yeah. She doesn’t see the value in getting entertainment for free while there are starving children in the world.
She’s only interested in getting brownie points from other consumerists.
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.
If it can’t own my media, I’m certainly not going to pay for it.
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.
If he has turned Nazi then I probably wouldn’t bother to listen to them anymore.
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, 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.
Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.
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
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.
