Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

dusty_raven@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t support piracy either. I just torrent it for free. 🏴‍☠️

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We should stop pretending piracy is some fringe problem instead of a pressure valve. When artists and creators use the internet primarily to sell and self-promote, they’re still participating in the same system even if they’re not Facebook or Spotify. Scale doesn’t change the outcome.

  We can’t have the internet we claim to want and treat it like a digital busking space. Those two ideas don’t coexist. Once monetization enters, everything starts bending toward the same endgame, tracking, ads, artificial walls, data collection, subscriptions. It always converges there.

  Content creators are part of the enshittification problem. Privacy is a stopgap response to it. A way people push back against a system that turns sharing into commerce. It’s unfortunate, but it’s the result of trying to force a market model onto a space that was built for sharing ideas and collaboration, not sales.

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d be excited if I stumbled upon an artist that I like, and they’d accept some private payment method (maybe Monero or something) for their music in a lossless format.

    I suppose that applies to any digital content format. It’s a shame that privacy has become such a low priority.

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  • dusty_raven@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Piracy can be used to push back against an unfair or immoral capitalist system, but the people who create and disseminate the art also live in the capitalist system. By all means, subvert the system if you want (it may be the right thing to do), but minimize collateral damage to things you want to support.

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