Comment on Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I assume you mean for artists, to do it legally?

I’ve been collecting physical audio from friends and family for decades. The idea is, you scratch your disc, I gotcha — you don’t need to go buy another one. At first it was just “cover the cost of a blank,” but the blanks got cheap enough (and the burners got fast enough) that it wasn’t a big deal. Even my technophobe mother saw the benefit of me plugging my laptop into her home stereo and DJing on it. So she would get up and change records. Once I showed her I had all the albums on the computer and could easily change them with clicks (or taps) rather than physical activity… she was 100% sold.

Now I have all that music on a Plex server. I just share with family though. Something like that, if you had a web of people sharing Plex shares, would be cool, but not exactly legit. Maybe something to ask about on an instance like db0 rather than .world. Because generally anything involving copyright tends to be frowned on by bigger/more public instances… and I try not to break rules on other instances.

But the problem is, rights are messy, to say the least.

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