Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoi personally use a provider for that. i just download torrents to their cloud and get it at maximum speed from there. so I don’t have to worry about p2p risks or being online a lot. I’m with premiumize, but there are others I guess.
axx@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That’s not morally defensible.
Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).
So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn’t exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn’t be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
you are not wrong, but this also applies to VPN services. (their defense is as good as the sharehosters are useful for downloading Linux ISOs)
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
VPNs would still be in business if illegal filesharing didn’t exist. I don’t think you could say the same for sharehosters.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
true. because they scam people into thinking they would add privacy.