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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

In the case of small little indie bands, they often aren't on torrent sites at all. Given the choice between Spotify and Bandcamp, I'm going to buy the album on Bandcamp 100% of the time. I can contribute to the artist more and usually end up with a vinyl copy on the process.

Pirating has always been a solution to poor ease of access to content. If I could pay a legitimate subscription for a site with the catalog of PTP or RED, I would do it in a heartbeat. It will never happen though.