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Your Favorite Songs Are Wall Street’s Latest Investment (jacobin.com)

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The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

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[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

They won't stop there. AAA game developers and the awful productivity software giants like Adobe, Oracle and Microsoft themselves have already gotten everybody used to live service, cloud software, and subscription models where they have all the control and you're just renting. They will destroy indie software and games next too, if we let them, Microsoft's TPM requirement on Windows 11 is likely just the first step in putting up unbreakable walls around their garden, which they would build even faster if Linux weren't providing real competition they can't just buy to suppress.

[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

Thanks to Linux, LibreOffice, Inkscape, Blender, Ardour and Ableton I've been able to avoid any of these so far. I certainly hope to keep doing so. Actually, with some will to adapt to new software and slightly different workflows it still seems possible. Kicking WaveLab and Waves seemed hard at first but I can't say I am missing them now.

[-] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Does Ableton work well on Linux in your experience? What's the best recipe? I haven't tried it yet, but awesome if it works!

[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

I'm not running it on Linux, usually. Live is pretty much the only thing I am running from the Windows partition of my laptop. I did, however, run it on my PC on a Virtualboxed Windows and -IIRC- also under wine64. The virtualized variant ran like on bare iron. Absolutely no problem, not even with hardware synths via MIDI. I think the wine install also worked fine - at least I can't remember having any problems with Ableton on a Linux PC. The one thing that will cause problems with wine are VST(i)s. You'd have to install each one with wine and hope they'll coexist with the shared environment.