• femboi [they/them, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Now that we're old we can complain about how Spotify has ruined the morals of the next generation because they never learned about the benefits of piracy.

        Also to be less sarcastic I think it was eye opening for a lot of people to hear all this propaganda about how piracy was killing music, only for it to not matter. Everyone was pirating music and surprise, no record labels went bankrupt. Makes you think :thinkin-lenin:

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          Spotify did what everyone who was pirating back in the mid-90s wanted.

          Songs-on-Demand Radio.

          Like, once that happened, why bother pirating music unless you're really invested in dodging ads? 20 years ago, you literally couldn't listen to the music you wanted unless you pirated it. Now I just bang the title into a browser and click the link.