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.
When I wanted to revisit Harry Potter via audiobook, I pirated the books, and I will do it again someday.
Personally I won’t even download it, I even deleted music ive had for years because the artist went maga. And let my daughter use the CD in some arts and crafts, because I can’t listen to it anymore.
That said, yeah, I’d prefer to download over buying if I didnt want the company or artist to get the money for it.
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
Dropping truth bombs here
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.
The Sims 4 is the only game my wife plays nowadays. You can bet we didn’t pay the hundreds of dollars it would cost to get all the DLC.
Ripping off most of the big streaming services is a moral imperative. They are all corrupt and evil in one form or another. Except Dropout. If you pirate Dropout content you’re a dirtbag.
I am the High Priest of Kopimism. Download from where you want, and go in peace my child.
See, that’s the thing. I don’t listen to music by Nazis.
If it can’t own my media, I’m certainly not going to pay for it.
Corpos think we are stupid and they gonna be able to use the big dick of daddy Sam to force us into compliance…
These idiots don’t understand who the back bone of piracy communities are 🤡
Spotify has fraudulent practices, so morality forces me not to give him income. All my music comes from Soulseek.
Here’s a link for you to get an idea of what I’m talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_on_Spotify
What other option is there, other than Spotify? I doubt much that buying all the albums I hear is an option, as I hear a lot of music.
Honestly there’s so much wonderful art out there not created by Nazis, I don’t know that it’s worth the energy to pirate Nazi music.
I totally understand the moral pirate argument, I just don’t have time to enjoy all of the games, movies, and music from artists I support. To waste what time I have engaging with content from people I find morally repugnant is just not where I’m investing
I totally agree. I just mentioned RKelly and MJ. I have had to stop listening. As time goes by more comes to light and I lose some good tunes.
Use it as an opportunity to find new music and fill those playlists out with a little more variety
Same goes for sexual abusers too.
Doesn’t matter how good that first Lostprophets album is, I just can’t listen to it knowing what Watkins got up to, so I’ll listen to music by people who didn’t fuck a literal baby.
Yes I do this all the time for games
They tell us we don’t own the game, only a license to play the game that they can arbitrarily revoke.
If you are going to hold my right to play something I paid for hostage, you can bet I am going to reclaim what I lost if that access is taken away from me (this does not apply to you selfish assholes that hack games to cheat then get banned).
Disco Elysium is a great target for this
You don’t have to justify it, really, but it does feel satisfying when you do.
Which song of his out of curiosity? Just use Soulseek. (nicotine+ on desktop or Seeker on Android)
Thanks for the response. I’ll take a look
Yup, if you use Denuvo for your games, you can fuck right off
Of course. I stand on high moral ground when I chose to pirate.
Economy is broken and anti-consumer. Piracy if the only way I know to balance things of. If I wouldn’t be pirating I would just be letting those economic bullies take advantage of me.
And specially with cultural products there’s another big reason, as I think human culture is to be shared, not sold. I do actually think is inmoral to prevent other humans to freely access anything that could be considered cultural.
I have this. Paid for these things through from cassette and VHS to cd/dvd then paying for streaming. I have paid over and over for some content. I hate subscriptions.
You have commitment issues with subscriptions.
I despise rent seeking behaviour.
we are not the same.
😝
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.
U seed out of spite. Fuck Hollywood 🐸
