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• FippleStone@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are clearly not aware of the windfall profits corporations are making, and that they are then passing exactly none of it on to the workers generating that profit

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• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean the moral thing is just to not buy the product if you have an issue with it.

    I have no problem with piracy, but pretending youre some sort of hero for doing it is ridiculous

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is that the moral avenue? You want these artists to fade into obscurity because nobody can ever hear their music while also not earning any money?

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      • Templa@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not saying Bandcamp are the good guys but at least you have an option. And today is Bandcamp Friday, when artists keep 100% of the sales!

        We run our Navidrome server at home and listen to our music using clients such as Feishin and Tempo (Android).

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• Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is a moral imperative to pirate EA, Ubisoft and Nintendo.

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• Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A popular myth, but a myth nonetheless.

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• sunbunman@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always try to buy my music first, digital only though. I don’t have space for CDs or the like. If the option is not available (not common), the tricorn goes on. And normally I would go through any loophole I can find to get it legally. But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.

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  • Templa@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What kind of japanese stuff do you listen to? I might be able to recommend a place

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But damn, the Japanese really don’t like doing business with foreigners.

    Truer words have never been spoken

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    • Templa@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I was a teenager I would save my lunch money to order CDs from CD Japan

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