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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely for particular reason: streaming. Most music is easily accessible for a pretty nominal price these days, and often comes with features like Spotify's Discover, which suggest new songs/artists that you might like given what you already listen to. You can't do that with a cd or vinyl. You have to purchase the whole album even if there's only one song on it you'd like listen to.

Piracy is often a response to media being overpriced or inaccessible. Streaming services essentially solve both those issues with a reasonable monthly price for unlimited access and large libraries of high quality music.

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

Correct.

Music streaming essentially “solved” the “issue” of music piracy. Although it never solved the greedy corporations which were and still are stealing and living high off the creators (they always shift blame to pirates or now streaming. It’s never THEIR fault of course.)

Unfortunately the movie/TV business missed the cue on this one and thinks charging like $50 for a super ultra suck your dick bluray is gonna sell when piracy is always an option. If there was a few big libraries of movies/TV with literally every single movie and show available the day of release and forever after that for some price, I dunno what exactly, with no addon nickel and dime bullshit, I might consider not downloading everything from dodgy sites. But that day came as close as it ever will probably and then moved on to the modern times where Paramount and Discovery think anyone is gonna pay for that shit non-bundled.