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- piracy@lemmy.ml
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/25939068
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Bandcamp, even though it’s ownership is questionable at this point, still has Bandcamp Fridays where the artist gets 100% of the sale, and they let you download DRM-free high quality FLAC files.
This is for all those who don’t like this, and want to demand DRM-free files.
sometimes, especially with niche artists, there aren’t that many high quality flacs out there in the first place
Yeah, the one thing that keeps me on spotify
I usually go with Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube (latter two in rare cases) downloads when I can’t find it as a Torrent or on Soulseek (using Nicotine +)
You find niche artists on Spotify? Not my experience at all, anything even slightly non-mainstream I could not find.
Yeah, tbh Spotify has massively diversified my music taste and even more than that introduced me to literally hundreds of artists I’ve come to really enjoy.
I don’t use the home tab or any public playlists, I make my own playlists out of music featuring my faves, usually grouped by genre or vibe or for highly personal stuff to specific times and events in my life, like an old mixtape of sorts, then I’ll see what’s suggested at the bottom and check those songs out. If I really like it I might listen to more by the same artist or the album the song is from but I’ve never been huge on albums as a medium specifically.
It used to be a few years back that almost all the suggestions were spot on, maybe even better than Google Play Music used to be, but much more effective than the tried and true method of googling “artist/album/song like x”.
A lot of the artists I found that way only have a couple hundred or thousand monthly listeners, if that.
Though lately the recs haven’t been very good.
For mainstream things there is 7digital, qobuz and a few others where you can get drm free files including flac most of the time.
I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone’s (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It’s still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ’s sake.
I’d sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.
It should be illegal to revoke or modify people’s purchases. All games should be able to be kept and played using the version you bought it at except maybe MMOs due to technical reasons. Forced updates and DRM need to be outlawed.
I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.
I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.
I haven’t played Minecraft since they took it from me.
What about all the lost accounts due to the Mojang -> Microsoft account migration? Lots of people either didn’t get around to doing it, or was able to and that meant the game you bought was suddenly null and void as your Mojang account got deleted if you didn’t consent in time to migrate to Microsoft.
Just gonna leave that here:
https://github.com/rmcrackan/LibationSyncs and deDRMs your Audible library in a configurable interval. Also works headless on your server
i don’t buy audible anymore but i had a sizable library from before and this works great!
A lot of books only get Audible Originals, so I don’t really get around it. This way I can still keep it on my own server and serve it through Plex.
Of course it’s real. This is maybe one of the least shocking beliefs from a webcomic like xkcd ever. Like 1/5 of all the comics are about hacker culture or Linux.
Okay but programing or Unix jokes are whole different cake than openly admitting piracy unless you’re Meta.
Maybe you’re missing some context. This comic is about DRM. Back in the day there was a big fight between the companies and consumer advocate groups like the EFF over DRM because it’s awful for the people paying for DRM’d content.
It’s pretty easy to buy DRM-free content now for certain forms of media, esp. books and music, not so much for others. But my whole point here is that if you’re on the side of the EFF and FSF, you’re anti-DRM, which means that you’ll probably support piracy as long as DRM continues to fuck over consumers.
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Louis Rossmann shouts this from the YouTube rooftops all the time. Why not Randall?
He’s gotten a bit less edgy over the years. Mostly in good ways.
Even though this is an old one, going by the ID.
Yeah that’s what I mean; this is a bit edgier than I’d expect out of him these days. To be fair people often tend to become less piracy-enthusiastic once they publish their own books!
Ouch fair 😅
Fuck yeah Randall is based af.
This shows us that the entire (modern) concept of buying digital goods is flawed
what’s funny is about 1/3rd of my movies i have on my JF server i have at one point had on vhs, blueray, dvd, or netflix. i unsubbed to netflix and amazon a few months ago once i got my jellyfin server to be reliable enough. 100% wouldn’t look back.
