Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You NEVER own the music/games/movies you pay for. Even when you have a physical copy.

  You have a license, not ownership. You’re always the product.

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  • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t own the copyright, but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want. I can lend the physical disk to a friend and if I don’t like it or get bored with it, I can sell it. That’s what you can do with music CDs and you used to be able to do with PC games before they contained Steam’s DRM.

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    • sab@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Saying I don't own my copy of Pokemon Gold or my vinyl record collection is like saying I don't own the books in my bookshelf.

      I guess there is indeed a limit to my freedom to how I use them - I cannot write the words down one by one and start reselling my copy. But that's a pretty messed up concept of ownership where I probably don't even own the shirt on my back.

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    • TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want

      Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people’s basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won’t be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn’t have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.

      Content owners can’t wait until the only option we have is to stream.

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      • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t have to use physical media. You can buy digital DRM-free music and games online and store them on your hard drive like many people do. I was only using music CDs as an example, since they don’t contain DRM.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have a license, not ownership. You’re always the product.

    This is nothing but bullshit copyright cartel propaganda. Quit spreading it.

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    • jyoskykid@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s is not a propaganda, it is just what copyright law is. Unless people waiver their rights specifically, purchased music is always licensed to you.

      Meaning you cannot share the file to anyone else, because if that was the case anyone could buy it and share it with anyone else, making the concept of purchases void.

      The only fair alternative would be to make the music a one time purchase of Price per user * Number of Expected users so that the artist gets their fair money and people can buy it by pooling money.

      That is stupid, but that’s how copyright is.

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• 30isthenew29@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think with Spotify the artists are the product.

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