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.

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[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which Kanye song?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, they said recently

[–] Skellysgirl@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

Hmm I suppose I should amend. I have had this same dilemma with RKelly then MJ. I just can’t condone some artists.

[–] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Now that's a keeper

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

If it can't own my media, I'm certainly not going to pay for it.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] croaker@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Bandcamp is decent. If you wait for Bandcamp Fridays, all of your money goes to the artist.