Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby
Qvest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not fun is pressing play one day and finding a big chunk of your carefully constructed playlist is “no longer in your library.”
this is exceptionally true from my experience with Spotify. I had downloaded a playlist that had a specific song. One day I went to play my locally downloaded playlist only to glance over it and see that the song was unavailable. I had the song downloaded. In my device and it still removed the song. No warnings, no nothing. Ever since, I downloaded everything locally and completely ditched Spotify. Fuck this scummy behaviour
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 5 months ago
I get your anger, but if they no longer have the license to play the song, they cannot allow you to play it, even if the file is on your device. I don't find it scummy in the least. You didn't own the file, you were renting it from Spotify.
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Whatever you say lawyer, now he’s a pirate, nobody cares about the technicality.
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 5 months ago
Yeah, I get what you are saying, but then it’s imho dishonest Marketing, and the user expected something different when they signed up for the paid service. I think “renting” movies, tv shows or music is not something the user expects.
If they would advertise it as “pay us 20 Dollarinfos a month, and you can listen to your favorite music for as long as we allow it and don’t take it away from you!” they surely would never be popular…
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
But everybody knows that steaming musc from Spotify doesn’t mean owning the music there?
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 5 months ago
Well if i would ask my boomer-parents or non-technical people, they would tell me that spotify is just like collecting CDs, and that you keep the stuff you paid for.
Qvest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s fair, but at least they could say something like “you can download our songs as long as we allow it” and not “you can download your favourite songs and listen to them any time, anywhere” when that is only partially true, since, if someone has a playlist downloaded (still talking about personal experience) and they go offline for a long period of time, they can no longer play the songs and are required to get an internet connection only for spotify to audit and say “yeah you still have a valid subscription, you can still listen offline”. It’s not truly offline if I have to connect to the internet every once in a while.
Again, it’s completely fair, but they could at least tell more than half-truths