This person has hit the nail on the head. Own the music.
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netvor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In order of preference:
- buy flac directly from the label
- buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
- buy CD and rip it to flac
- despair
- try to fight it
- give up and get it via torrent.
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail. …but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).
The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
netvor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
echindod@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
This is basically my strategy too. Though, I tend to buy from Bandcamp first and foremost. I like that most of the time if I buy physical media (either vinyl or CD) on Bandcamp it comes with a digital download.
I was disappointed that Bandcamp was bought by a company a few years back, but nothing has changed… Yet.