Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 9 months agoI 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.
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…
But everybody knows that steaming musc from Spotify doesn’t mean owning the music there?
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.
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
yamanii@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whatever you say lawyer, now he’s a pirate, nobody cares about the technicality.