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Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up?

I have honestly no clue what you mean. Could you explain?

You’re mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they’re not profitable anymore

Which is why I’m actively searching for the best possible options.

When I learned that Spotify is fleecing artists, I moved to Tidal.

Then I learned about the French Qobuz, which pays artists even more, and I switched.

I support artists on Bandcamp. I buy physical CDs and will soon fire up a vinyl collection.

I’m aware that 100% of the money I spent on art doesn’t go to the artist, but even if it’s 10%, it’s going to be 100% more than if I resorted to piracy.

Supporting piracy to show corpos the finger is the equivalent of stealing CDs from a music store, because the store price includes the store’s margin, transport costs, manufacturing costs, and only a (relatively) small percentage goes to the artists.

Why would I support local artists if an artist from abroad makes the music I love?

And, if their music is not available locally, nor they have a Bandcamp/similar account, how do I support them if not through streaming services?

I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you

That’s a very interesting take considering I’m against piracy and pro direct purchases from bands. Please, do explain how you ended up at that conclusion.

people in my tax bracket are extracted for every ounce of raw money we can generate, both now but even speculatively in the future. it really doesn’t make sense to consider theft as a taboo against corporations

This is such an “I’m 12 and a rebel” position to take…

Sure, corporate greed is a cancer, there’s zero doubt about that.

But these corporation also create jobs, make it possible for many people to survive. In terms of media streaming corpos SO MANY people/bands were allowed to have a career thanks to people just stumbling upon them.

Should they be getting paid more? Absolutely. Should the corpos handling the hardware, infrastructure, AND software be also paid? If you don’t believe that, you’re just naive or ignorant. Or both.

sopuli is a Finnish board right? my understanding is that you guys have way stronger social ethics and consumer protection, so yeah. in your world I probably would sign up for that Napster subscription again. or even better, a service actually from Finland. Bandcamp is good too

Or the French Qobuz.

here, though in the present we have far worse things to worry about than theft. being tricked into defending the feelings of billionaires is a big one. letting corporations curate our education and media is another

Be the change you want to see. Instead of going stomping feet and stealing candy, go to the store that you feel you can morally support. Hard to do IRL, but online - sky is the limit. Use European services, those that pay artists (Qobuz pays around 5 times more than Spotify to rights holders), buy directly from artists on Bandcamp, etc., etc.

Piracy is literally the worst solution here because you’re taking without giving. Any “fight the corpo!” banner here is just extreme naivete because the artist will starve MUCH quicker than the corp.

It’s still giving them SOMETHING, isn’t it?

Of course I’d prefer to buy directly from the artist (hence: Bandcamp), but that’s not the world we live in. Flat out piracy is just the worst of all the available options.

woah woah woah, chill bro goddamn

Then stop saying stupid shit like “they just cannot live without an algorithm” when talking about people who use streaming services.

I would suggest Qobuz (if available) or Tidal. Deezer’s CEO is a hard-core religious nutjob who finances anti-trans orgs and sexual conversion “therapies”.

I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

Oh, piss off. I just want to financially support artists for making something beautiful I enjoy. Streaming is the easiest because of space constraints. I still buy the CDs of my most favourite albums, but I cannot stress enough how great it is to NOT have to rip the MP3s every time, make sure the tags are good, etc.

It’s convenient.

If you don’t like Spotify’s new ID check, kill your Spotify account and use an alternative - Tidal and Qobuz are both excellent.

The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.

If they somehow go through encryption, they won’t just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.

But, you can’t disable Recall, that’s the point…

Well… Technically you’re correct - because the feature is not out yet.

No idea WTF you people are reading here, but for a “Technology” community, the comments here are just plain ridiculous…

Again: if they did that, the EU’s GDPR would eat them alive.

LOL, this is hilarious :D

Imagine believing they can sneak gigabytes of network traffic without anyone noticing just because you can’t read the code! :D

Grow up, mate. And check the calendar.

So you still think it’s 1990. Got it. Well, times have changed. We have better oversight. The EU has GDPR, user data is better protected. If they tried to pull off a “heist” and suddenly start grabbing these screenshots from users, the fine from EU would be historical.

Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world.

I don’t know if this is a regional thing, but I’ve been using Windows since 3.11 and have NEVER had ONE instance of an update randomly turning on something that I’ve turned off before.

Windows, an OS that is spyware and no one should use

Of, ffs, grow up.

An example of Windows being spyware not standard telemetry is the Recall feature. A feature that doesn’t just tell you how the OS is used but actually takes screenshots every few seconds

You have no clue what you’re talking about, do you?

Recall only works on devices with an NPU. Do you know why? Because it runs locally. It’s got NOTHING to do with telemetry, because it does NOT send data to Microsoft.

Are you a tech-illiterate person?

If not, explain how is it malicious.

“Look at this fossil thinking it’s still 1990”, I guess?

Mate, did you miss how 30 years have passed? How the world change? Can you even begin to imagine the fine the EU would slap without a second thought on MS if they tried pulling something like suddenly grabbing these screenshots from users’ devices?

Then don’t enable it.

I don’t. I read tech specs and security analyses. You just stick your head in the sand whenever someone says “Microsoft”, though. It’s silly.

Right. So you’re all panicking just in case.

That’s what’s being swept under the rug as “alarmists being loud”.