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[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago

The music industry welcomed the development, stating that a service that helps infringers evade prosecution through anonymization also acts illegally.

But a service that artificially inflates revenues with shady accounting of song plays while simultaneously withholding payments toward creators, that's totally not criminal.

-Also the music industry

Copyright laws based in the eighteenth century sure are awesome when applying analog scarcity to the digital world! /s

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I agree, why not have all of the funds go to servers and the engineers+teams and the rest of the profits go to artists that make the service possible

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Because our whole economic system revolves sound and rewards rent seeking, and paying people operates in opposition to that.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

That's why I pirate. I don't even use 95% of what I download and seed. Just spread it.

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